| | 1 | Title: | Edsel B. Ford office papers, 1903-1945 (bulk 1920-1940)  | Requires cookie* | | | Accession: | 6 | | | | Creator: | Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943. | | | | Abstract: | Edsel B. Ford, the only child of Henry and Clara Bryant Ford was secretary of the Ford Motor Company from 1915 to 1917 and president of the company from 1919 until his death in 1943. The papers are primarily comprised of correspondence, subject files, and financial records. The bulk of the records relate to company business in the 1920s, 1930s, and early 1940s. | | | | Subjects: | Automobile industry and trade | Industrial designers. | Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943. | Ford Motor Company -- Management. | Ford Motor Company -- Presidents. | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 5 | Title: | Virgil M. Exner papers, 1913-1986 | Requires cookie* | | | Accession: | 1741 | | | | Creator: | Exner, Virgil M. (Virgil Max), 1909-1973 | | | | Abstract: | Virgil Exner was an automobile designer who worked for General Motors, Studebaker, Chrysler, and his own company Virgil Exner, Inc. The collection consists of concept and engineering drawings, renderings, photographs, correspondence and art work. | | | | Subjects: | Exner, Virgil M. (Virgil Max), 1909-1973 | Exner, Virgil M. (Virgil Max) Jr. | Loewy, Raymond, 1893-1986 | Virgil Exner, Inc. | Automobile industry and trade. | Automobiles--Design and construction. | Industrial designers. | Chrysler automobile. | General Motors automobiles. | Bugatti automobile. | Duesenberg automobile. | Advertising--Automobiles | Boats and boating--Design and construction. | Design drawings. | Sketches. | Photographs. | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 6 | Title: | Edsel Ford Automotive Scrapbook series, 1911-1925 | Requires cookie* | | | Accession: | 660 | | | | Creator: | Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943. | | | | Abstract: | Edsel Ford was a connoisseur of fine art and antiques, and a designer of considerable talent. His interest in automobiles and design is expressed through the scrapbook, which holds magazine and catalog clippings of fine cars (mostly
European), illustrations and snapshots of English custom bodies on the Model T chassis, and pictures of early racing cars. | | | | Subjects: | Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943. | Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943--Homes and haunts. | Ford Motor Company--Presidents. | Ford Motor Company--Management. | Automobile industry and trade | Automobiles--Design and construction. | Ford Model T automobile | Industrial designers. | Automobiles, Racing. | Boats and boating | Selling--Automobiles | Photographs. | Scrapbooks | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 10 | Title: | C. Harold Wills papers, 1899-1939 | Requires cookie* | | | Accession: | 418 | | | | Creator: | Wills, C. Harold (Childe Harold), 1878-1940 | | | | Abstract: | C. Harold Wills was an early associate of Henry Ford who later left Ford Motor Company to form his own automobile company, the C. H. Wills Company (later Wills Sainte Claire, Inc.). These papers mainly focus on Wills activities after leaving Ford Motor Company and include personal financial statements, business records and newspaper clippings. | | | | Subjects: | Wills, C. Harold (Childe Harold), 1878-1940 | Hornsey, John | Lee, John R. | Ford Motor Company | C. H. Wills Company | Wills Sainte Claire, Inc. | Marysville Land Company | Automobile industry and trade--Michigan | Automobiles--Design and construction | Industrial designers | Mechanical engineers | Metallurgy | Marysville (Mich.) | Financial records | Patents | Scrapbooks | Technical drawings | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 13 | Title: | Automotive design drawings collection, 1935-1987 (bulk 1940-1979) | Requires cookie* | | | Accession: | Assembled | | | | Creator: | Benson Ford Research Center | | | | Abstract: | The Automotive Design Drawings collection consists of a variety of sketches, renderings and blueprints created in conjunction with the design of the external structure and internal components of various automotive products. Incorporated into the collection are drawings for a wide range of vehicles including concept automobiles, show automobiles, production models, trucks, military and mass transit vehicles. The collection, which includes work from more than eighty designers, is arranged alphabetically by name of designer. | | | | Subjects: | Albert, Jon. | Aldrich, Jake. | Cafaro, John A. Jr. | Gierscheck, W. | Mitchell, William L. (William Leroy), 1912-1988. | Najjar, John. | Querfeld, Arthur L. | Russinoff, Elia. | Salvador, Ben E. | Scheelk, Robert J. | Shenk, William B., 1933- | DaimlerChrysler | Ford Motor Company | General Motors Corporation | Walter Dorwin Teague Associates. | Automobiles--Design and construction | Automobile industry and trade | Industrial designers | Trucks--Design and construction | Urban transportation--Design and construction. | Vehicles, Military | Design drawings. | Technical drawings. | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 14 | Title: | Photographs For The Company series, 1918-1954 | Requires cookie* | | | Accession: | 189 | | | | Creator: | Ford Motor Company. Engineering Photographic Department. | | | | Abstract: | The series is comprised of photographic prints and negatives created by the Ford Motor Company Engineering Photographic Department. Subjects include the engineering and design on Ford Motor Company automobiles, tractors and airplanes, as well as factories, celebrities and other Ford interests. NOTE: This PDF formatted document is quite large, may take some time to open and/or download. | | | | Subjects: | Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 | Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943 | Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 | Ford Motor Company. Engineering Photographic Department | Ford Motor Company. Highland Park Plant | Ford Motor Company. Rouge River Plant | Ford Motor Company. Willow Run Bomber Plant | Fair Lane (Dearborn, Mich.) | Ford Village Industries | Sialia (Ship) | Aircraft industry | Aeronautics--Competitions | Antiques | Assembly-line methods | Automobile industry and trade | Automobiles--Design and construction | Automobiles--Testing | Industrial designers | Celebrities | Ford automobile | Lincoln automobile | Mercury automobile | Ford Three-engined Monoplane (Transport plane) | Radio--History | Soybean products | Tractor industry | Vehicles, Military | World War, 1939-1945 | Ford Airport (Dearborn, Mich.) | Photographs | Negatives (Photographic) | Photographic prints | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 15 | Title: | Automotive industry design oral histories collection, 1980-1988 | Requires cookie* | | | Accession: | 1673 | | | | Creator: | Benson Ford Research Center. | | | | Abstract: | The Automotive Industry Design Oral Histories collection consists of tapes and transcripts of interviews with automotive designers conducted by David Crippen of The Henry Ford staff during the late 1980s. There are approximately 118 interviews, some of which are available digitally and online: http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Oral_histories.htm | | | | Subjects: | Automobiles--Design and construction | Automobile industry and trade | Industrial designers | Women designers | Andrews, Robert F. | Arrington, L. D. | Bernays, Edward. | Bordinat, Eugene. | Boyer, Robert A. | Brunn, Herman C. | Buehrig, Gordon. | Chapin, Roy D. (Roy Dikeman), 1880-1936. | Exner, Virgil M. (Virgil Max), 1909-1973. | Ford, Bill, 1957- | Ford, Henry, 1917-1987. | Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943. | Gregorie, E. T. | Halderman, Gail. | Hodges, Audrey Moore. | Holls, David R. | MacMinn, Strother, 1918- | Madawick, Tucker P. | Mitchell, William L. (William Leroy), 1912-1988. | Morris, C. Lester | Najjar, John. | Rybicki, Irvin W. | Shenk, William B. | Teague, W. Dorwin. | Thomas, Robert | Tremulis, Alex Sarantos | Vanderbilt, Suzanne E. | Vandermolen, Willemina J. | Veraldi, Lewis C. | Walker, George W. | DaimlerChrysler | Ford Motor Company. | General Motors Corporation | Oral histories | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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