NARA Collection fc — Collection fc

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Spectators standing around field at night, searchlight, fireworks being shot off, biplane with ‘Radio’ written on side - Edsel Ford with flag standing with group on field - Fokker plane taxis up to starting point, is flagged off - biplanes flying overhead - plane landing - Ford Stout 2-AT all metal plane landing, ‘Air Transportation Service’ truck is backed up to it - Army bombing plane taking off, in the air - plane flying low over Ford planes parked on field - biplane taxiing - panoramic view of field, spectators, workers, planes - Henry Ford and others talking - close-up of Edsel Ford and R.W. Schroeder - Army bomber landing - biplanes taking off - three engine plane Stout 3-AT, early Ford Tri-Motor prototype, taxiing toward camera. [1925]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour for the Edsel B. Ford Trophy and Detroit News Balloon Race. Balloons rising at Ford Airport during balloon race, mooring mast in foreground - Edsel Ford with Reliability Tour starting flag standing with group on field - Edsel Ford with flag raised - Ford Stout 2-AT airplane starts take off run and takes off - Henry Ford and man talking on field near Fordson tractor and airplane - Henry Ford and others talking under wing of Ford plane. [1925]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. View of biplane in flight, landing on muddy field - group including pilots on field, sign on back of pilot, ‘Swallow Airplanes’ - crowd standing under wing of plane out of rain - cars in parking area, planes in foreground - plane in flight over field. [1925] b. Boy playing with Greyhounds - accelerated view of boy and dog running - dogs lying on the ground. Miners coming out of mine on mine car. [1925] c. Football players run onto field, parked cars and spectators in background - players practice, pose, team captains shake hands, referee flips coin - football game - residential area in background. [1925]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a.Sunset at seashore - high water - power line support towers in background. Earth moving machinery, horses, men, on construction job in rocky, hilly country, Prescott, Yavapai County. Workers driving stakes into ground - camp in a valley - workers digging hole - workers driving stakes - workers carrying box of TNT, unpack box, set charge - rocks with Indian signs painted on them - detonating mechanism. [1920] b. Valley from high point, farms, Spanish church, town - valley from high point, river, orchard, Spanish style town built on two sides of orchard as rows of haciendas - Spanish style town from above - tourist on rocky trail - in the town, Spanish church - church from street - family poses - children pose on steps of house, adults come out of house, down steps, man picks up child, family poses at gate - close-up of man - city square, two men walk - boarding school - small boys march, drum and bugle corps on steps of building - courtyard from patio of building, boys playing - classroom - dining room, boys enter and sit down at table - boys ringing swimming pool, all dive in, swim - public building - building with arched two story porch, pedestrian, horse-drawn vehicle, and automobile traffic - sign, ‘Automobiles Ford, Trucks Ford, E.C. Monteverde’ - sign, ‘Bank of Sonora’ - city street - garden from porch - porch through doorway. [1920]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Military band, parked cars, spectators lining street at site of Tau Beta construction. Speakers stand, two women, one standing speaking, man speaking, another man speaking, spectators, woman speaking, another woman holding papers up - woman placing papers into container, placing container into cornerstone on crane - people on speakers platform spreading mortar - stone being set into place spectators - flags being raised - spectators including boy scouts, children - group of women talking, posing. b. Mrs. Lindbergh and Harry Brooks with airplane. Tri-Motor in hangar, man in foreground - group of men with airplane - close-up of Tri-Motor - people entering hangar, standing about, talking - group including Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, Mrs. Lindbergh [Evangeline, Charles Lindbergh’s mother], Harry Brooks (pilot) - group posing beside plane - several members of party entering plane - Mrs. Lindbergh leaning out door, talking - plane taxiing out of hangar, on field, taking off for Mexico City, cameraman in foreground taking pictures of plane - aerial views of airfield, countryside, Detroit - dirigible in flight, several views from airplane. [1927]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Views of concrete slab with Luther Burbank’s spade, Thomas Edison’s footprints and signature - three men standing - platform, cameras and people on it, trucks beside it, people milling around - Henry Ford and Thomas Edison outside Edison’s laboratory, Greenfield Village - Edison speaking into microphone, entering building - Edison climbing steps of platform with Burbank’s spade in hand, placing spade in wet concrete, walking across it, signing name with stick, spectators - Ford and Edison posing, spectators - group entering Edison’s laboratory - Edison getting out of car, being greeted at door to laboratory, entering, followed by woman and Ford and others - group milling around slab of concrete - close-up of Edison’s signature in concrete - Edison and Ford in laboratory, tinkering with steam engine - Edison placing spade, walking over, and signing concrete slab. [1928] b. Henry and Mrs. Ford in first workshop, posing outside - posing with Henry Ford II - close-up of sign on shop, ‘58 Bagley Ave. In this little brick shop…Mr. Henry Ford completed his first car in 1896…’ - Henry Ford sitting in Quadricycle - Henry and Mrs. Ford posing in Quadricycle - Henry Ford II posing with them. [1938] c. Sign, ‘Dangerous Hill. Go into Second Gear’ - several different Model A Fords being driven on country roads, up steep hillside, across rough field. [1928]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Large rolls of cotton placed on machine - workers operating milling machine, views of cotton passing through various stages of refinement from raw cotton to thread - workers unloading bales of cotton from truck - bales unwrapped, fed into machine - workers packing cotton into large cart - put into another machine - views of other machines refining the raw cotton into thread - girls putting spools of cotton on racks - man weaving thread - thread being washed - women operating weaving machinery - cartload of belts of cloth - worker pressing, wrapping and tying stacks of material. [1922]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Country road, men talking, automobile traffic, several burros loaded with wood, buildings and windmill in background - oxen pulling cart loaded with logs, truck passes - field workers using hoes and shovels, man driving mule pulling a plow. [1920] b. Seminole village, thatched shelters - children and woman in native costume standing by river - canoe with masts near bank of river - three Indians sitting under canopy - close-up of two men posing, one in costume. [1920] c. Plant interior, man emptying bags of cotton seed into machine - man running hands through seed, seed coming off belt - worker takes handfuls of cotton from machine, examines them - large machine with rollers - cotton comes off conveyor belt - cotton rolling off machines in bats - hands full of seeds - worker operating machinery - pressing machinery in operation, view of corrugated board that was pressed, man breaks board in half - open sacks on ground with contents partially spilt out - man using machine to fill sacks - sewing sacks shut. [1922]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Crane in industrial plant lifts railroad locomotive from tracks, turns it 180°, lowers it back onto tracks - closer views of same operation. [1921] b. Fordson tractors in single file pull wagons and carry advertising signs along a street - streetcar and automobile traffic. [1921] c. Men working (only partially visible) behind a board fence next to sidewalk - passing pedestrian traffic - workmen and lumber stack beside home - carpenter saws lumber using a sawhorse. [1919] d. Spanish style buildings, automobile and pedestrian traffic in narrow streets - natives -donkey drawn cart and native, church in background - native men, women and children on a dock, native boats at dock - groups of natives pose on wharves - native boys walk toward camera - church bell tower under construction - church yard - pedestrian with public building in background - church towers - church entrance - horse-drawn coach - tourists and natives - public building with Panamanian flag flying from mast - ‘International’ building - large residence - business district, automobile traffic - native rides donkey, two milk cans tied to sides of donkey - large landscaped residences - traffic on a narrow, palm-tree lined street - streetcars, horse-drawn coaches, automobiles - two native boys scuffling in a narrow ally - group of native boys watch - native women and children. [1919]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Crippled children walk back and forth across stage. [1916] b. Cincinnati, Ohio. Baby Dromedary makes his first pose before the motion picture camera. Camels - bison - attendant dangles meat outside cage of tiger, feeds tiger, feeds lion - deer in barbed wire compound - man hand feeds a deer - stag and does - clutch of killdeer eggs. “Driving and riding a 400 lb. ostrich.” Ostrich pulls sulky, man rides ostrich. Man holds two piglets under his arms. “A Duroc Jersey boar.” “Daran, champion Belgium stallion. Weight 2,300 lbs. Sire, Champion of the World, Paul. Owned by E. LeRoy Pelletier.” Groom with Belgian stallion - grooms walk horses on racetrack - horned owl - two men hold hawk by wings. “…a $20,000 calf…Pel Dora De Kol…the son of King of the Pontiacs and the daughter of Woodcrest Dora Decko.” “He is related to Roy Apple Thorndyke and King Roy Apple Champion and has 184 sisters…” “Woodcrest Dora Decko a $5,000 cow and the mother of Pel Dora De Kol…” “Richard Fairfax. 4 year old Hereford bull. Weight 2,400 lbs.” Man holds rope of two bulls - men walk the two bulls. “Halcyon Sequel registered Guernsey bull.” “Cheviot sheep.” [1916]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Boy with deformed arm performing various exercises . Cetil Mason, Case 175732, Henry Ford Hospital, 4/26/32. Boy with deformed leg performing various exercises - close-ups of deformity - Nellie Studt, Case 160452; Perry Ludwing, Case 166856; Date, 2/1/32. Large sore on foot of patient - patient’s chest, front and back - patient performing various arm exercises - boy with deformed arm performing exercises. [1932] b. Large pipes attached to machinery - pressure door on side of machine door open, valves on pipe - pipe and valve network - two generators tank with valves on it - machinery - wooden frames, machinery in background - machinery, valves, large tanks, worker on platform - large pipe leading from tank. [1932]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Motorcade entering River Rouge plant - close-up of Crown Prince Frederic, Princess Ingrid, Henry and Edsel Ford sitting in rear of open car - car stopping - Prince, Princess, Henry and Edsel Ford getting out of car, entering plant - views of party touring plant - Prince getting into car on assembly line - Henry Ford explaining procedures to royal party - Princess getting into car, driving out of plant - Prince Frederic, Princess Ingrid and Edsel Ford talking outside plant - Henry Ford talking to royal party - posing for the camera - Henry Ford getting into car, driving away. [1939] b. Man driving tractor with plow in field - tractor driven over piece of 4x4 wood - man demonstrating with model tractor on table, men gathered around - two men driving metal plate into ground - tractor and plow getting stuck because of metal plate, wheels spinning - men standing on tractor behind driver - tractor trying to plow up metal plate - view of men in stands watching tractor demonstration - Henry Ford sitting in seat of tractor, crowd gathered around - tractor plowing field, men with shovels watching - Ford and man posing at rear of tractor, young boy standing in front. [1938]