| 1 | Title: | N. R. Berry Records, 1951-1955  | | | | Accession: | 2004.1.1862 | | | | Creator: | Berry, N. R. | | | | Abstract: | N. R. Berry was a supervisor in the Ford Motor Company Tank Division, located in Livonia, Michigan. Records consist of correspondence, reports and publications regarding T-48 tank, tank contract history, list of vendors with part numbers supplied, mobilization study of M-48 tank 90 mm gun facility (some photographs), etc., 1951-1955. | | | | Subjects: | | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 3 | Title: | National Auto Show Public Relations Release | | | | Accession: | 1019 | | | | Creator: | Ford Motor Company | | | | Abstract: | Public relations release of the 43rd National Auto Show, Cobo Hall, Detroit, Mich., October 15-23, 1960 entitled "The Automobile in Popular Song." A brief summary of the songs written, circa 1900-l960, related to the automobile. Compiled by Christy Borth, July, 1960. | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 4 | Title: | National Graniteware Society Research Materials | | | | Accession: | 2016.95 | | | | Creator: | National Graniteware Society | | | | Abstract: | The National Graniteware Society was a group dedicated to collectors of the enamel-coated metal cookware known at graniteware. This collection contains research materials that members could have utilized in researching their items, including newsletters; photocopies of catalogs; and publications from other groups, such as the National Enameling & Stamping Co. Also included are a bag of labels; 5 mounted graniteware finish samples; 15 unlabeled tubes of loose samples; 2 jars of white frit and ground coat frit; and 8 uncoated spherical samples. | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 6 | Title: | National Recovery Administration records subseries, 1933-1937 | | | | Accession: | SE001 | | | | Creator: | Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943 | | | | Abstract: | The National Recovery Administration, or NRA, operated during the period that Edsel Ford served as president of Ford Motor Company. The records are comprised of correspondence, reports, literature, NRA codes and other federal government information relating to Ford Motor Company involvement with the NRA. Contains Accession 52 and Accession 279. | | | | Subjects: | Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943 | Ford Motor Company | Automobile industry and trade | Ford Motor Company--Finance | United States. National Recovery Administration. | Financial records | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 7 | Title: | Neil Simmons Justowriter Collection | | | | Accession: | 2009.39 | | | | Creator: | Simmons, Neil | | | | Abstract: | The Friden Justowriter was a justifying typesetting machine which served as a transitional phase between analog and digital in typesetting and publishing. In the late 1970s, Neil Simmons acquired one for use at his church. As computers became more popular, Simmons connected the Justowriter to an early notebook computer, where it could act as a printer. This collection contains a punched paper tape, punch cards, two Justowriter user manuals, a package of carbon paper, invoices, drawings of wiring schematics, and a genealogical record of the donor's great-grandfather which was printed on the Justowriter. | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 9 | Title: | Nevins and Hill interviews series, 1952-1960 | | | | Accession: | SE003 | | | | Creator: | Ford Motor Company. Archives. | | | | Abstract: | Allan Nevins and Frank Hill interviewed many people involved with Ford Motor Company for their three volume history of Henry Ford and the company. This series includes transcripts from many of these oral histories. The series includes Accessions 834 and 975. | | | | Subjects: | Ford, Henry, 1917-1987 | Ford, Benson, 1919-1978 | Kanzler, Ernest Carlton, 1892-1967 | Davis, J. R., (John R.), 1894-1985 | Miller, Arjay R. (Arjay Ray), 1916- | McNamara, Robert S. (Robert Strange), 1916- | Williams, Walker A. (Walker Alonzo), 1901-1981 | Ford Motor Company--History | Ford Motor Company. Archives. Oral History Section. | Oral histories | Sound recordings | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 10 | Title: | Nevins and Hill Research, Original Documents and Notes Series, 1845-1960 | | | | Accession: | 572 | | | | Creator: | Ford Motor Company. Archives | | | | Abstract: | In 1954, Columbia University historian Allan Nevins in collaboration with Frank Ernest Hill published the first volume of a comprehensive history of Henry Ford and his automobile company. The series is comprised primarily of original documents that were selected between 1952 and 1954 from accessions held by the Ford Motor Company Archives for research use in the three volume Nevins and Hill history of the company. | | | | Subjects: | Automobile industry and trade | Automobile factories | Assembly-line methods | Aircraft industry | Ford automobile | Automobile dealers | Automobile industry workers | Industrialists | Pacifism | Philanthropists | Industry and education | Schools | Tractor industry | Vehicles, Military | World War, 1939-1945 | World War, 1914-1918 | Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 | Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943 | Ford, Clara Bryant, 1866-1950 | Ford family | Couzens, James, 1872-1936 | Hill, Frank Ernest, 1888-1969 | Kanzler, Ernest Carlton, 1892-1967 | Knudson, William S., 1879-1948 | Liebold, Ernest Gustav, 1884-1956 | Martin, Peter Edmund, 1882-1944 | Mayo, William Benson, 1866-1944 | Nevins, Allan 1890-1971 | Sorensen, Charles Emil 1881-1968 | Wills, Childe Harold, 1878-1940 | Ford Motor Company--History | Ford Motor Company. Archives | Ford Motor Company. Sociological Department | Ford Motor Company. Highland Park Plant | Ford Motor Company. Rouge River Plant | Ford Motor Company--Executives | Ford Motor Company--Employees | Ford Motor Company--Industrial relations | Ford Motor Company--Public relations | Henry Ford (Organization) | Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton Railroad | Henry Ford Hospital | Henry Ford Trade School | Ford Village Industries | Ford Fleet | Detroit (Mich.)--History | Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--History | Genealogies | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 12 | Title: | New and Unprocessed Archival Accessions, April 2020 | | | | Accession: | none | | | | Creator: | Henry Ford (Organization). Benson Ford Research Center | | | | Abstract: | The Benson Ford Research Center, home to the Archives of The Henry Ford, holds more than 3000 individual collections, or accessions. Many of these accessions remain partially or completely unprocessed and do not have detailed finding aids. In order to provide a measure of insight into these materials, the Archives has assembled this listing of more than 1100 new and unprocessed accessions.
Accessions are listed alphabetically by title in two groups: New Accessions contains materials acquired 2018-2020, and Accessions 1929-2017 contains materials acquired since the opening of The Henry Ford in 1929 through 2017.
The list will be updated periodically to include new acquisitions and remove those that have been more fully described. Researchers interested in access to any of the collections listed here should contact Benson Ford Research Center staff (email: research.center@thehenryford.org) to discuss collection availability. | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 16 | Title: | New York World's Fair (1939-1940) photograph albums, 1939-1940 | | | | Accession: | 1892 | | | | Creator: | Ford Motor Company. Engineering Photographic Department. | | | | Abstract: | The collection contains photographs of celebrities, politicians, scientists, explorers, and dignitaries from around the world at the New York's World Fair in 1939 and 1940. Ford Motor Company displayed products at many exhibitions from 1904 to the 1960s. | | | | Subjects: | Ford, Clara Bryant, 1866-1950 | Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 | Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943 | Anderson, Judith, 1897-1992 | Bankhead, Tallulah, 1902-1968 | Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 | Firestone, Harvey Samuel, 1868-1938 | Grant, Cary, 1904-1986 | Hayes, Helen, 1900-1993 | Henie, Sonja, 1912-1969 | Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 | La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947 | Pickford, Mary, 1892-1979 | Rodgers, Roy | Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 | Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944 | Smith, Kate, 1907-1986 | Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973 | Thomas, Lowell, 1892-1981 | Ford Motor Company. Photographic Department | New York World’s Fair (1939-1940) | Automobile industry and trade | Exhibitions--20th century | Celebrities | Tourism | Ford Motor Company--Exhibitions | Ford Motor Company--Executives | Ford Motor Company--Public relations | Photographs | Photograph albums | Portraits | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 19 | Title: | News Clipping Concerning Harriet Atwood | | | | Accession: | 1027 | | | | Creator: | Ford Motor Company | | | | Abstract: | News clipping concerning Mrs. Harriet Hadden Atwood, who played the piano for Thomas Edison's first phonograph recording in 1887. No dateline (Mr Delaney received it from a person in Norfolk, Virginia). | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 21 | Title: | Newspaper Clippings series, 1955-1959 | | | | Accession: | 723 | | | | Creator: | Ford Motor Company. Edsel Division. | | | | Abstract: | Edsel clippings and scrapbook. The scrapbook contains clippings regarding 1958 model. The clippings cover the discontinuation of the Edsel 1960. 1955-1958 and 1960. | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 22 | Title: | Niels H. F. Olsen papers, 1895-1954 | | | | Accession: | 368 | | | | Creator: | Olsen, Niels H. F., 1890- | | | | Abstract: | Accession 368 is comprised of legal papers concerning patent litigation and other legal matters. The records relate to several suits including the wire wheel patent, 1924-1940; Selden patent, 1895-1939; steel piston, 1917-1940; parts manufacturing, 1930-1934. The papers also include patent data, proving ground material, experimental engineering records (including personnel list for 1932), testing records, bumper design records, acoustics design records, and crankshaft design drawings. There are photographs and technical drawings throughout the accession. Also see Accession 631. | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 30 | Title: | Nurseryman's Specimen Books, circa 1885 | | | | Accession: | 2019.0.2 | | | | Creator: | Unknown | | | | Abstract: | In the late 1800s, nurseries and traveling salesmen could purchase individual plates or books of plates depicting fruits, flowers, and ornamental trees to show potential clients their products. Often, these plates included a brief description of the plant and images of assorted fruits, like apples, peaches, grapes, and berries; trees, such as Norway spruce and weeping willow; or flowers, such as lilacs, hydrangeas, and gladiolus.
The Nurseryman's Specimen Books contains two samples of these catalogs, both containing colored 6x9 inch color plates. The first book contains prints made by D.M. Dewey of Rochester, New York, and the cover does indicate who may have used it. The second is noted as being from the Great Northern Nursery Co. in Baraboo, Wisconsin. It is a fold-out design with 6 plates attached to a ribbon for flipping the pages. The images in this book were created by the Rochester Lithograph Company of Rochester, New York, which merged with D.M. Dewey in 1888. The collection is open for research. 0.3 cubic ft. (1 box). | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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