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Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton / Playground and Games / Ford Trade School Boys See Lindbergh / Southwest U.S.

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton with another man leaving Ford Motor Company administration building, posing for the camera, getting into car - in Los Angeles, group approaching Maddux Airlines Tri-Motor, posing beside plane, boarding. [1927] b. Several tennis courts, games in progress on some, residential area in background - children on slides and ground - girls in bloomers on rings - children swinging and climbing on swing supports - sandlot baseball game, spectators. [1920] c. “‘Mechanics’ are taken by bus to Ford Airport to catch their glimpse of the ‘Lone Eagle.’” Large number of buses, some double deck, on driveway of Henry Ford Trade School - boys boarding buses [8/10/27]. “Take off from school building, Highland Park.” Buses along road. “925 students make the trip. They also are Detroit’s own.” Buses, crowd on street corner - school building, buses pulling out of driveway. [1927] d. Panorama of high snow-covered mountains - crowd surrounding tractor with number ‘17’ on cloth tied to radiator - fishermen in mountain stream, pine woods in background, netting fish - cliff dwelling from inside, Indian climbing out of Kiva by ladder - ruins of old Spanish mission, bell tower - two rattlesnakes that have just eaten on ground - stick poking at snakes, snakes thrashing around. [1920]

  • Parte de Ford Motor Company Collection, Motion Picture Films Relating to the Ford Motor Company, the Henry Ford Family, Noted Personalities, Industry, and Numerous Americana and Other Subjects

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