NARA Collection fc — Collection fc

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “Cleveland automatic screw machine with turning fixture, Photographed July 2, 1933.” Machine in operation. “Cleveland automatic screw machine with turning fixture, Photographed November 22, 1933.” Machine in operation. [1933]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Coast to Coast in 48 Hours. Part One. Atterbury, Lindbergh, Keyes, Sheaffer, and Maddux sitting around desk, talking to camera with film introduction. Aerial view of New York City - views of Pennsylvania Station - people buying tickets - people boarding trains - sign, ‘The Airway Limited, Second Section’ - train leaving station - train under way - map showing route between New York and Port Columbus - people leaving train - views inside air terminal, weighing baggage - people boarding Ford Tri-Motor airplane - inside plane - Tri-Motor taxiing and taking off - plane over Columbus, Ohio - view of Pennsylvania Railroad train - map showing route between Columbus and Indianapolis - purser handing out maps to passengers - plane landing at Indianapolis - teletype announcing arrival - map showing route from Indianapolis to St. Louis - plane landing at St. Louis, passengers deplaning, entering terminal - plane engines being revved up - view inside hangar, mechanics and engines, Charles Lindbergh inspecting - passengers boarding plane - mechanic starting engine - taking off - map showing route from St. Louis to Kansas City - views in pilots cabin - men at terminal releasing weather balloon, taking reading - purser serving food to passengers - plane over Kansas City - map showing route to Wichita, Kansas - copilot calling Wichita - operator at Wichita talking - Lindbergh passing Tri-Motor in small biplane - passengers looking out window - aerial view of Wichita - map showing route from Wichita to Waynoka, Oklahoma - aerial view of oil derricks - passengers boarding bus in Waynoka - passengers eating dinner. [1929]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Captions: “The minute particles floating in a liquid or gas are animated by a constant and intense movement which has been carefully studied by Brown. Colloidal particles examined through an ultra-microscope show clearly these movements. Colloidal gamboge.” “Particles of colloidal silver.” “Larger amplification. The width of the screen represents 14-thousandths of an inch.” “Electrical transport -- Colloidal particles are electrically charged. In an electric field the particles go to the (+) positive pole to the (-) negative, according to the kind of charge. Therefore the direction of the transfer changes when the current is reversed.” “To appreciate the speed of the Brownian Movement and of the electrical transfer we have caused a modification in lighting every two seconds.” “Brownian Movements of tobacco smoke floating in the air -- the small cross appears at intervals representing one second.” “Electrical transfer of the smoke. The signs (+) positive and (-) negative indicate the anode and the cathode.” [1925]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Colorado Plateau-Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. “This is America’s most wonderful canyon.” Map of southwestern United States showing location of Colorado River Plateau. “The diagram shows how the Colorado River formed the Grand Canyon.” Diagram showing various layers of sedimentary rock and stages of cutting by water. “The Colorado River cut these deep chasms. The clear air enables us to see across the canyon. How far is it? Why does the river have this great cutting power?” Tourists looking over edge of canyon - panorama of canyon. “Great layers of sedimentary rocks on a granite base form the Colorado Plateau. These rock layers are pages in the long history of the Earth.” Views of cliffs showing layers of rock. “These rocks were ages ago sediments in the ocean bottom. Can you prove it?” Canyon. “These rock layers are 8,000 to 10,000 feet above the sea. The Colorado River slowly cut its deep canyon as the land was elevated.” Views of canyon. “From the canyon’s edge far below to the river, it is almost one mile. Follow the cliffs and slopes down to the small silver thread of the river. Niagara Falls, 160 feet, is lost in this great depth.” “The high cliffs are hard rock, the slopes are of soft rock. Why are the trails so winding and so difficult?” Tourists on horseback going down winding trail. “The Cork Screw is a steep part of the Bright Angel Trail.” Tourist party descending. “The tiny white line is the trail nearly 2,000 feet below.” View into canyon from above. “It is a half-day’s ride to the bottom of this great canyon. The river flows with great velocity. How wide is it?” Tourist party on trail - river. “The rushing water is colored deep brown from the mud it carries. It is not fit to drink. There are no fish here. Note the large boulders. The river uses them to cut its bed.” Close-up of rushing water. “The Colorado River is in a deep granite gorge whose nearly vertical walls are 1,500 feet high.” View of cliffs, tourists on edge - looking down into canyon. “For ages the rocks have been attacked by wind, frost, rain, and temperature changes. Wonderful fantastic forms have been made. Thor’s Hammer and the Cheops Pyramid are masterpieces of erosion.” Rock formations. “The rocks are in great layers of red, green, brown, and white. The red layer is nearly 1,000 feet thick. Each layer represents a time longer than the Coal Age.” Canyon - riders on trail. “The rock layers on the granite are 300 feet in thickness and the Tower of Set is 2,000 feet above the edge of the Granite Gorge.” Canyon from above. “Temples as large as mountains have been carved from the many colored rock layers. Zoroaster Temple from the rim.” Rock formation. “Mesa-like masses have been left more than 1,000 feet high as the rocks were worn away.” Butte from below. “Isis Temple is three thousand feet high and stands on the platform north of the Granite Gorge.” Buttes from a distance. “The Grand Canyon. ‘It is beyond comprehension -- beyond description; absolutely unparalleled throughout the wide world.’ Theodore Roosevelt.” Canyon. “The Grand Canyon is one of the world’s wonders. It inspires the artist and the writer. The Indians worshipped it. We marvel at this glimpse of the Earth’s history.” Several views of the canyon. “The End.” “Ford Educational Library.” [1920]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “The rock layers on the granite are 300 feet in thickness and the Tower of Set is 2,000 feet above the edge of the Granite Gorge.” View of canyon. “Temples as large as mountains have been carved from the many colored rock layers. Zoroaster Temple from the rim.” Natural rock formations. “Mesa-like masses have been left more than 1,000 feet high as the rocks were worn away.” View of huge butte. “Isis Temple is three thousand feet high and stands on platform north of the Granite Gorge.” View of temple in background. “‘The Colorado Canyon. It is beyond comparison -- beyond description; absolutely unparalleled throughout the wide world.’ Theodore Roosevelt.” “Grand Canyon is one of the world’s wonders. It inspires the artist and the writer. The Indians worshipped it. We marvel at this glimpse of the earth’s history.” Views of the canyon. “The End.” “Ford Educational Library.” “The tiny white line is the trail nearly 2,000 feet below.” Looking down into the canyon. “It is a half-day’s ride to the bottom of this great canyon. The river flows with great velocity. How wide is it?” Horse and rider going down trail - river. “The rushing water is colored deep brown from the mud it carries. It is not fit to drink. There are no fish here. Note the large boulders. The river uses them to cut its bed.” Rushing river. “The Colorado River is in a deep granite gorge whose nearly vertical walls are 1,500 feet high.” View of walls, across and down into canyon. “For ages the rocks have been attacked by winds, frost, rain and temperature changes. Wonderful fantastic forms have been made. Thor’s Hammer and the Cheops Pyramid are masterpieces of erosion.” View of formations. “The rocks are in great layers of red, green, brown, and white. The red layer is nearly 1,000 feet thick. Each layer a time longer than the Coal Age.” Riders on the trail. “These rocks were ages ago, sediment in the ocean bottom. Can you prove it?” “These rock layers are 8,000 to 10,000 feet above the sea. The Colorado River slowly cut its deep canyon as the land was elevated.” “From the canyon’s edge far below to the river, it is, almost one mile. Follow cliffs and slopes down to the small silver thread of the river. Niagara Falls, 160 feet is lost in this great depth.” View down into canyon. “The high cliffs are of hard rock, the slopes are of soft rock. Why are the trails so winding and so difficult?” Riders going down trail. “The Cork Screw is a steep part of the Bright Angel Trail.” View from above of winding trail. “Ford Educational Library.” “This is America’s most wonderful canyon.” Map of Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico showing Colorado River. “This diagram shows how the Colorado River formed the Grand Canyon.” Diagram of rock layers in Grand Canyon area and how the river cut through. “The Colorado River cut these deep chasms. The clean air enables us to see across the canyon. How far is it? Why does the river have this great cutting power?” Tourist near edge - canyon. “Great layers of sedimentary rock on a granite base form the Colorado Plateau. The rock layers are pages in the long history of the earth.” View of layers - tourist above throws stick over edge. [1919]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Ford Brazil, Fordlandia, and views of rubber plantation at Boa Vista on the Tapajos River, Brazil. [1930]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “Machine shops.” Plant, sign, ‘Plant 1, Robinson Machine Co.,’ piles of materials, workers - car with truck bed added driven out of shop - shop interior, workers at machines. “Cutting Truckford sprockets.” Sprocket cutting machine in operation. “Assembling the Truckford which requires two hours’ time.” Model T Ford being driven into shop - shop interior, men removing body, rear wheels, attaching truck chassis, chain drive to rear axle of car and truck wheel. “The completed Truckford ready for the body.” Worker sitting on gas tank, driving Truckford away. “Truckford. The peer of all one ton trucks. Cuts your hauling cost in two. Manufactured by the Robinson Machine Co., Detroit, Michigan.” [1916]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Crash and Live. A Special News Report on Passenger Safety. Host Art Fleming explaining concern about and advances in automobile safety - safety experts getting off bus, entering Ford Rotunda - men seated in auditorium - John Moore, Director Automobile Crash Injury Research, Cornell University Medical College, speaking to group - view of wrecked cars - Alex L. Hains, Executive Engineer of Ford Motor Company and Art Fleming in Ford laboratory, 167 pound dummy mounted as pendulum swung into mounted steering wheel, rim collapsing allowing steering column to hit chest of dummy, pendulum swung against Ford safety wheel, so constructed that chest of dummy does not hit steering column - Hains demonstrating safety door latch - Hains and Fleming examining safety features of new Ford, including padded dash board, seat belts, padded sun visor, hinged rear view mirror, safety steering wheel - new Ford on test track traveling by remote control from van alongside and hauled by lead car is crashed into car parked on track - views of dummies inside wrecked Ford, Hains describing what injuries they probably sustained - Fleming at Ford Rotunda, new Ford behind him - Henry Ford II addressing group of men - view of group - Ford II explaining gift of $200,000 to Cornell University for further safety research - Fleming talking. “The End. Information Productions, Inc., New York.” 1956]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “A lumber camp is generally an inexpensive, rude affair, affording only necessary comforts, but is the first essential step in a logging operation.” Snow-covered buildings, forest in background, horse-drawn sled loaded with logs moving in foreground - workers driving team of horses from barn - workers and horses moving off through woods. “A couple of ‘good fellers’ generally make up a crew.” Two workers chopping notch in tree trunk - sawing tree with two-man saw - tree falling. “And then we said, ‘The giants old are lost beyond retrieval.’” Tree falling. “Cutting into log lengths.” Workers using two-man saw. “The logs are then drawn to the skid way and loaded on large heavy sleds.” Workers and horses snaking logs through forest - men using block and tackle to load logs onto sled - horse-drawn sled loaded with logs moving through forest. “These skid ways are frequently sprinkled, making a roadway of ice which will last far into the spring.” Horse-drawn sled of logs moving through forest. “From the sled the logs are loaded onto cars.” Block and tackle pulling load off sled, onto railroad flatcar. “On the road to lumber.” Railroad train of log-loaded flatcars moving through snowy forest. “The modern lumber camp is as completely organized as the modern factory, ‘power logging’ having replaced the picturesque many yoked ox teams of earlier days which railroad hauling is fast taking the place of ‘driving.’ Snaking out logs by cable and donkey engine.” Logs being moved by block and tackle. “Snaking out by the ‘aerial route.’” Logs being moved by overhead cable, stacked near donkey engine. “The total area of forest land of the United States is 545,000,000 acres. A total of 23,000,000,000 cubic feet is cut annually, the annual growth is 7,000,000,000 cubic feet -- note the annual cut is three times the growth.” Large logs being moved by block and tackle. Nearly every forest stream in America has served at one time or another as a highway for conveying logs to the sawmills and market.” View of rushing mountain stream. “Out of the woods. The drive begins with the spring floods as soon as the ice is out of the streams.” Logs in stream, workers with long poles - logs floating down stream. “Where our fancies of what a lumberjack should be come true.” Worker riding logs moving down stream. “The logs are carried to the mills and placed in ‘booms’ (a liquid warehouse) from which they are selected by the mill.” Panoramic view of boom, mill, logs falling into boom - worker on logs in boom. “The log haul delivers the log from the boom to the mill. This particular log contained 5000 feet of lumber. Quantum sufficient for ‘a little gray home in the west.’” Views of very large log on conveyor. “One log makes many boards.” Worker on moving saw platform - band saw cutting boards off log. “Sawing boards. This machine contains 54 saws and cuts, in one operation, 108 boards one inch thick, 12 inches wide and any desired length.” Wood moving into machine, boards coming out. “Conveyor systems have added greatly to the efficiency of the Sawmill.” Boards on conveyor, workers sorting. “Efficiency is apparent in lumber yard transportation as you may judge for yourself from the very familiar little Detroit Motor that has been easily persuaded to perform the work of several horses.” Trailer load of lumber. “Ready for a mission of usefulness in building up the home.” Stacks of lumber in yard, workers. “Loading a Lumber Steamer at Astoria, Oregon. Note how electricity shoulders the greater amount of responsibility in preparing the load and putting it aboard ship.” Bundles of lumber being moved from dock to hold of ship by crane. “‘Home Made.’ Now for the house the factory builds.” Plant interior, lumber on conveyor, moving into machinery - several different machines in operation, lumber on conveyors, workers - sawing, milling, drilling, gluing, planing - people watching worker sawing stair support. “Gluing under ten-ton pressure.” Worker setting press. “A resting place for the weary.” Worker assembling chair frame, placing it in clamps. “Beautified.” Woman worker painting decoration on furniture panel. [1920]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “No department of the packing industry has progressed as has pork packing. Formerly this was done only during winter.” Two women in farmyard feeding hogs, chickens, ducks. “Washed thoroughly and put on conveyors.” Meat hanging from conveyor belt - workers operate sausage stuffing machinery - workers cut beeves in half - open can of sausages, woman turns them out on plate - canned tongue, beef - workers sample canned meat - canned beef, turned out of can, knife cuts it - workers pack cans - take cans off conveyor belt - hogs hanging - men cutting and trimming - cans move along conveyor belt - inspecting cans - cutting and trimming - scraping hides. [1919]