[Greenfield Village] Part 3
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Carriages move up street, people walking on sidewalk - view from atop of carriage of people walking, entering different houses and exhibits - man operating steam engine - views of old log home - house with ‘post tenebras lux’ sundial clock on front wall - people walk through passage - two small brick huts - sign, ‘Slave Huts. These huts were brought from a plantation near Savannah, Georgia. Each was divided by a partition into one main room and two small sleeping quarters.’ - slave huts - children jump rope in front of large columned house - group of people enter two-story house - older Tudor styled houses - sign, ‘Greenfield Village and Museum, Edison Institute’ with replica of Independence Hall in background - people at ticket office - women framed by rod-iron gate looking at Independence Hall - view of the Floral Clock as seen through a wagon wheel, people walking - children waiting in line for pony cart ride, cart arrives, children get out and others climb in, short trip and process starts over again - ponies, driver, cart, children - flour mill in operation - man filling 12½ pound bags of ‘Greenfield Stone Ground Whole Wheat Flour.' [1936]
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