NARA Collection fc — Collection fc

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Views of River Rouge plant - freighter ‘Henry Ford II’ under way - crane unloading ship - worker placing metal sample into pneumatic tube - spectrographic laboratory, worker examining sample, foundry foreman reading report - crankshaft casting - workers forming molds - milling and finishing crankshafts - measuring and inspecting crankshafts - X-raying crankshaft - cylinder linings being placed in engine block - valve seat inserts being measured - testing gearshift operation - distributer assembly - testing and inspecting ignition coil - hydraulic pump assembly, testing - four workers standing on plow being raised and lowered by hydraulic pump - testing strength of ring gear teeth - measuring engine parts - rows of rooms with precision testing and measuring machinery - piston pin inspecting machine in operation - ring seat insert testing machine in operation - tractor being test driven in plant yard. [1939]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Panoramic views of city, beach and bathers from high point. “Atlantic City is the home of the Boardwalk. Each day during the season railroad trains deliver sweltering thousands.” Train pulling into station, passengers alighting. “Elephant Hotel, at one end of the Boardwalk, where you get rooms and the entire Atlantic Ocean for your baths.” Views of hotel, people entering. “The owners believe in an eye for a window and a tooth for a hat rack.” View of hotel. “The only crab in the party.” Crab on sand. “Not being able to bring the ocean to their back doors some people are forced to move to the ocean. But living in homes like these is not exactly a hardship.” Large houses. “This game is all right except when played with Bricks and Bottles.” Men and boys in bathing suits playing catch with large ball on beach, people on board walk and beach in background. “A prominent hotel, built strictly according to the well-known Turkish cigarette advertisement style.” Pedestrian traffic, hotel in background - views of hotel with towers with minaret tops. “It hardly need be said this is the Boardwalk. If young Mr. Emanuel had a nickel for every man, woman and child, who had walked over its boards he could buy up Portugal, enlarge it and make his summer home at Newport.” Views of crowded board walk, pedestrians, chair cars - beach and bathers from Boardwalk. “Life-size baby buggies help the picture -- and the gout.” Pedestrian and chair car traffic. “What romantic girl could fake a feint and be rescued by her sweetheart with a life saver around?” Two men in rowboat. “‘What makes the ocean so restless?’ asked the little girl. ‘The sad sea waves are angry,’ her fond mother said. Probably because they can’t go any further than the shore.” Surf against pilings of Boardwalk. “The End.” [1919]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Pile of salt on beach, native, building in background, two workers unload truck of salt - men breaking wild burros - three little girls walk along street - wide spreading tree - shore line - hermit crabs on beach - scenes in tropical park - street, pedestrian, horse-drawn vehicle traffic - panorama of city from high point - sea scenes from deck of sailboat ‘Irene and May,’ hands on deck - view of island from water, lighthouse - panorama of city - government building, ornamental gate, pedestrian, burro-drawn vehicle traffic - excavation, pipeline across it. [1920] b. Cars in doorways of garage, sign, ‘Accessories, Parts, and General Supplies’ - car driven up, man gets out, worker gets in - native workers breaking rock - dock, sailing boat alongside, pedestrians - tropical growth - houses at top of bluff, British soldiers at attention for inspection, drill - residential area on outskirts of town, mountains in background - polo game, military band - native women doing laundry in stream - beach, children playing in water and sand - waterfront, sailboats in background, automobile, pedestrian traffic - building, sign, ‘Ford, Kingston Industrial Garage,’ cars, pedestrians - waterfall - tropical forest, automobile on forest road - views of distant mountains from high point, countryside - domestic buffalo in pasture - blacksmith shop. [1920]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Large number of balloons moored on field, spectators [International Balloon Race for the Gordon Bennett Trophy [9/12/27] - group of men near balloon, two holding large canvas bag open - man with papers in hand posing near balloon, group under balloon - man in balloon basket, woman and another man standing beside basket, spectators - views of crews, workers, and others loading balloons for flight, posing - small dirigible moored low over field, spectators - views of field, balloons, spectators, Henry Ford under umbrella - group on field including Edsel Ford - Henry Ford on field with military officer, cameramen, spectators - group near balloon, views of Ford and officer talking to man in Knickers, Ford walking away, talking to others - group of women posing holding flowers - balloon pilots posing in group, file past and greet ladies with flowers - balloons on field, spectators - dirigible in flight over field. [1927]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Balloons on field, spectators [International Balloon Race for Gordon Bennett Trophy [9/12/27] - balloons rising one at a time, dirigible flying back and forth over field, airplanes over field - spectators, several men carrying long plank across field - balloons, dirigible, and airplanes in flight over field, spectators. [1927]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Several partially inflated balloons on Ford Airport field - workers filling balloons - crowd in foreground, balloons - close-up of balloonists - crowd, men in basket being presented with flowers by girl, life raft in rigging of balloon, balloon ascending - close-up of man in basket, balloon rising - view of moored balloons, spectators - men in basket, balloon rising - men by basket - balloons rising - plane on field - view of motor - tail of plane, ‘Woodson Type 3-A, Woodson Eng. Co., Bryan, Ohio’ written on tail - plane on field, ‘Pitcairn Aviation Inc.’ on tail - ‘The Super Swallow, Swallow Airplane Mfg. Co., Wichita, Kansas’ on field - ‘Curtis’ plane on field - ‘Waco’ plane on field - ‘Mercury Aircraft Aerial Service Corp., Hammondsport, N.Y.’ written on tail of plane on field - close-up of motor and wheel of plane on field - ‘Alexander Eaglerock 6’ plane on field - small motor hooked onto wheel struts under plane - ‘Travel Air Mfg. Co., Inc., Wichita, Kansas’ written on plane’s tail. [1928]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Group of men standing around weighing scales, luggage on ground near scales, airplanes in background - views of several airplanes being flagged to take off [1929 Ford Airplane Reliability Tour] - parking area, spectators along fence - spectators on field looking at airplanes - airplanes and dirigible in air, spectators on field - dirigible flying low - several balloons rising from ground. [1929] b. “Blood transfusion for the ill child is no longer a formidable procedure.” Child in bed, doctor and nurse preparing equipment for transfusion - doctor inserting needle in child’s arm - nurse mixing blood with colorless liquid. [1936] c. Large number of airplanes on field, spectators, cars driven on field - group of men around scales weighing luggage, airplanes in background. [1929]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “Baltimore is the eighth city in the United States. It is located on Patapsco Bay, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. After New York it is the most important seaport on the Atlantic coast and is the gateway to the south.” Map of Chesapeake Bay area. “Baltimore has one hundred and twenty miles of water frontage.” Waterfront. “One of the docks for the Bay boats.” Buildings, traffic. “Baltimore Street is the most important avenue of the city.” Policeman directing automobile traffic. “A busy scene on Howard Street.” Pedestrian, automobile, truck traffic. “Eutaw Street is one of the oldest in Baltimore.” “The City Hall is the finest and most imposing of Baltimore’s buildings.” “The new Pennsylvania Union Station.” “Baltimore built the first railroad station in the United States for the B.&O. Railroad. The present Mount Royal Station.” “The Academy of Music and Baltimore College buildings.” “The fine court house.” “The Emerson and Kernan Hotels and the Maryland Theater.” “Baltimore’s factories and freight docks.” “The first monument erected to George Washington is in Baltimore.” Views of monument. “Battle monument in honor of the heroes of the Battle of North Point, 1814.” “Memorial monument to Lieutenant Colonel Watson of the Mexican war.” “The famous old Lexington Market.” “Fort McHenry, famous for the battle that inspired Francis Scott Key to compose the ‘Star Spangled Banner.’” Panorama and views inside ruins. “The oyster industry employs many boats and fishermen.” Boats at long dock. “The boats are unloaded at the docks.” Fishermen unloading baskets of oysters. “Oysters are hauled to the cannery.” Horse-drawn wagon outside cannery, piles of oyster shells. “Oysters are handled by hand labor.” Negro worker shoveling oysters from pile on dock into basket. “The choice oysters are kept by themselves.” Workers shoveling oysters into wheelbarrow, one wheeling it away. “Great quantities of oyster shells are sold for road building.” Pile of shells. “The oyster shucker removes several hundred oysters from their shells each day.” Worker holding oysters. “A broad bladed knife is used to open the shell.” Demonstration. “As a food the oyster has made thousands of friends.” Shucker holding oyster, removing it from shell, eating it. “The End.” “Ford Educational Library.” [1921]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Crowded grandstand; dugout; car, players, and other officials on field - V-8 convertible on display on field, floral piece with ‘Good Luck Detroit Tigers’ and V-8 on it - man presenting suitcase to team member - spectators in grandstand - Tigers on field, visiting team, shaking hands with two men - team around V-8 convertible on field, player posing in car - views of game - spectators - Tigers’ dugout. [1934] b. Sulky Races, Spectators. [1932]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Beaver at work - fell tree, float it in water - woman examining and trying on beaver coat and hat - beaver dam under construction. [1918] b. “Sparkling and glittering in the sun like the shattered jewels of some fallen monarch.” Workers break carborundum with mallets - throw it into crusher. “And now the grains are ready for sorting, which is done by ‘sieving’ as the grains are passed through screens of varying coarseness.” “It is now necessary to bind the grains together in order that they may be shaped into grinding wheels, drills, hones, etc.” “So a bonding agent of clay is, mixed with the carborundum grains in a tumbling barrel.” “Or the clay and the grains are churned very wet in basins, a process not unlike the making of mud pies.” “A carborundum wheel is made by a pressing process. The grain and the bond, slightly moistened, are subjected to a pressure of 904,000 pounds.” Molding and pressing machinery in operation - finished wheel. “Or by the puddling process in which the grain and bond are poured into molds and allowed to dry and stiffen.” “And then turned down to shape on a potter’s wheel.” “Sharpening stones are pressed to accurate shape and size.” Women work at long tables - pack carborundum and clay into molds. “Now the materials are ready for the ‘bake shop’ or kiln room where they bake for two weeks at high temperature.” Workers carry wheels into kiln. “Removed from the kilns, the wheels are carefully inspected and trued and given a speed test.” Testing machinery in operation. “Carborundum performs a wealth of service, on the farm, in the shop and in the home.” Farmer sharpening scythe - blast furnace in operation - workers shoveling materials in furnace - carborundum grains being screened - grains fall into barrels - workers carrying wheels. [1919] c. Men fishing in trout stream. [1919] d. Shows various processes in the printing of Government bonds: inspection - operating the presses - trimming. [1919]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Railroad yard, trains pass - Indian in feather headdress sending smoke signals - ‘Franklin’ watching lightning from window - telephone workers installing pole - Indian sending smoke signals - rolling wooded country scene, Indian looks out over country side - Franklin with kite string with key attached, touches key, receives shock - Indian looks out over countryside - telegraph messages on wire conveyor - Franklin at desk writing, lightning flashes outside, Franklin watches, closes window, watches lightning. [1920] b. Three Indian men, two beat drums, one beats two sticks together - two Indians in bird costumes dance. Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole Indian girls pose in front of school building. Indian drummers and dancers in ceremonial dance - looking into canyon from above - man on overhanging rock - rock formation which looks like face, man sitting on nose - canyon - waterfall - clouds and mountain peaks in distance - old men pose on steps of building, Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona. Close-up of some of the men - more close-ups of men on the steps - close-up of old man in front of shrubbery - building with old men on porch, men mounting steps - man and woman pose by house - view from above of walled town - valley with farms - tourists look at valley from observation point - waterfall, river winding down mountain side - golf course, "Best 18 hole golf course in the South." Golfers tee off, pass water hazard, on green - four girls pose - marker, ‘Welcome to Hot Springs, the World’s Greatest Health and Pleasure Resort’ - automobile traffic passes marker, at the junction of the Bankhead and Albert Pike Highway. Hotel, pedestrians, horse and rider - man holds lady’s horse, she dismounts, shakes hands - woman poses holding horse - views of hotel, tourists - ‘Majestic Hotel’ - riverboat - automobile traffic on main street of town, sign, ‘Auto Parts.’ [1920]