NARA Collection fc — Collection fc

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Views of biplanes on field - Henry Ford in car parked on field, talking to reporters - group posing - spectators on field, monoplane taking off - (‘Flivver Plane, Harry Brooks Pilot’ written on film) - small one-place plane, ‘Briggs Dart’ on side, in flight over field, landing, on field, spectators examining plane - (‘Reliability Tour 1926’ written on film) - planes in flight over field - small single-place plane taking off, in flight over field, landing, taxiing, spectators, two small planes taking off - airfield, spectators, small plane in flight over field - group standing in front of and around Ford Tri-Motor on field - Tri-Motor turning around on field, spectators - plane in flight over field - Tri-Motor taxiing. [1926]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Crowd on field of Ford Airport, planes and Pitcairn PCA-2 autogyro on field, replica of Independence Hall in background - biplanes lined up on field - planes taking off - planes landing. [1931] b. Japanese dignitaries touring plant - automobile assembly line - cars leaving building, man standing by entrance - Japanese dignitaries leaving building, getting into cars - cars in plant yard, smokestacks in background, cars driven up ramp into building, Japanese flag hanging above door - cars leaving building, driven down ramp - dignitaries in car, driven through plant building. [1931]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Biplane surrounded by spectators on field, man standing in rear cockpit, other pilot outside of plane - airplanes on field and in flight - Ford Tri-Motor taxiing to front of hangar - close-up of pilot in cockpit and motor - group under wing of Tri-Motor, handshaking - field, planes, crowd, workers - group around Tri-Motor - lady pilot [Phoebe Omlie] on shoulders of crowd, on ground shaking hands. [1928] b. Views of wheel of moving automobile. [1926] c. Description unavailable. [1929]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Ford Tri-Motor with pontoons in flight over water, ships and shore, plane landing on [Detroit] river, in flight, landing on water, taking off, in flight - ship towing airplane, rowboat behind, man standing on top of airplane - plane taking off, in flight, landing, taking off, landing - man standing on tail of plane on water - plane taxiing on water. [1928]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a.Views of residential street, pedestrian, automobile traffic, automobiles parked at curb. views of Ford Tri-Motor on pontoons taking off from water, in flight, landing, taxiing, ships passing and shoreline - men in rowboat near plane, man on top of plane. “The hopper underneath the central portion of the fuselage distributes this powder evenly over the trees.” Rowboat under plane on water, man on top of plane - one man climbs from boat to plane, two men on top, motor launch approaching plane - plane coming in for landing, dirigible in air. [1927] b. Freighter at dock, workers, winches and cranes loading lumber onto deck - view of ship showing winch distribution. [1927]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Airplanes on field and in flight, singly and in formation, spectators - group of people leaving plane - crowd around planes - planes taxiing - close-up of ‘National Air Transport’ Tri-Motor and two of crew, people boarding - airplanes on field, spectators. [1930]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Men running across snow-covered airfield [Ford Airport], Ford plane, spectators in background - plane taxiing, taking off - men turning around small Ford ‘Flivver’ plane - planes taking off, in flight - car on field - group of men around small plane on field, carrying plane, pushing it off runway. [1926] b. Model T driven along street in residential section, stopping in front of house, driver getting out shaking hands with man and woman - all looking at car - woman opening garage door, getting on car, backing it out of garage - garage, sign over it in Spanish, car in front - pedestrian traffic, man and woman driving away in car. [1923] c. Group of men including Henry and Edsel Ford at final assembly line - Henry Ford marking motor number of first V-8 car. Group posing - body drop, workers - body drop repeated - close-ups of grille, motor - views of final assembly line, group watching. [1932]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. View of Tri-Motor on floats on Detroit River, tugboat pulling plane, 3 men standing in rowboat behind plane, 2 men standing on top of plane, smokestacks of factory in background [1926] - interior of Ford airplane factory, workers. Tri-Motor plane at State Fair. Spectators inside of huge tent looking at Tri-Motor plane - close-up of reproduction of first Ford Quadricycle - view of Ford airplanes [1926]. “The men behind the plane -- Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, and W.B. Mayo.” Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh and others talking in a group - Lindbergh walks off, passes plane, returns and poses by ‘Spirit of St. Louis,’ climbs into plane, taxis away. [1927] Twin-engine plane with dangling cable and hook trailing behind, flies in low, snags cable supported between standards, tows glider into air. Frame of men putting up standard and cable [1938]. Ford Historical part 52. Five Army biplanes take off from grass field, rows of hangars in background [1918]. “They patrol our borders today.” Biplanes in formation, fly overhead. [1938] b. Several single engine Ford Stout 2-AT planes parked on field - Henry Ford with other man walks to plane, pick-up truck in background, Ford and other man standing by tail of the plane, ‘Maiden Dearborn IV-Ford Airport of Dearborn,’ on tail of plane - large hangar in background, ‘Ford Airport’ over doorway. R.W. Schroeder, former holder of the World’s Altitude Record, receives a few instructions. Edsel Ford waves flag - spectators in background . Swallow #16 piloted by Earl Rowland, the other by E.P. Lott. Fokker No. 20 is waved off. Carrier #22 with Casey Jones, Martin #26 piloted by L.B. Richardson. Ford #30 all metal plane piloted by Edward G. Harrington. Plane No. 30 , Stout 2-AT, takes off, mooring mast in background. Swallow 34 piloted by E.A. Goff. Plane No. 36 taking off - two working on partially inflated balloon, weights around edges of balloon - aerial view of 5 balloons on field, spectators. The Skylark piloted by W.C. Naylor and Kenneth Warren. View of balloon ascending - ‘Skylark, Detroit News Trophy Race’ written on balloon. Club Balloon piloted by Charles D. Williams Jr. and Arthur G. Schlosser, with Dr. Geo. M. LeGallee. Balloons ascending, mooring mast in foreground, planes flying overhead. Goodyear IV piloted by J.A. Boettner and W.W. Morton with H.W. Maxson second place. View of balloons. Highball II piloted by S.A.V. Rasmussen, E.J. Hill and S.A. Mitchell, winners of trophy -- traveled 240 mi in 19 hours. Balloon ascending, biplane in foreground, parked cars and spectators in background, people standing under plane wings out of the rain - plane overhead, lands on muddy field. Eddie Hamilton, pilot/James Phelps, mechanic. Searchlight at airport - plane overhead, two men talking, Ford walks past them, mechanics in background. [1925]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Views of airplanes on field, in flight, landing, taking off, Army planes in formation, stunt flying - ‘Texaco 13’ on field - people alighting from Tri-Motors - spectators at edge of field - Ford Airport buildings - various groups posing - balloons on field, being inflated, cars parked and travel on Airport roadway - spectators on field - airplanes landing on runway - Tri-Motor being loaded - Tri-Motor in ramp - balloons rising from field, in flight - spectators on field - dirigible in flight - balloons rising from field. [1931]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Spectators standing on field at Ford Airport - planes in flight, spectators watching - parked automobiles and planes at edge of field - balloon moored on field, spectators, parked automobiles - half-inflated balloon on ground, worker tying ballast bags to sides - tanks of hydrogen gas stacked on field, workers beside stack - balloon ‘Detroit News Trophy Race’ moored on field - balloons rising, one has sign, ‘U.S. Army’ - group on ground including Edsel Ford holding flag, R.W. Schroeder and official with pad and pencil - Edsel Ford flags plane #6 off, plane taking off - views of spectators. [1925]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Edsel Ford with flag on airfield, flagging, planes start to take off in the first ever Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour - planes on field, taking off, in flight - several people getting out of car in front of hangar - Henry Ford with another man on field. [1925] b. Close-up of man seated at desk talking. [1930]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Airplanes in flight in loose formation. [1929] b. Steam shovel filling dump trucks with dirt, shovel operator - trucks backing up, worker signaling drivers to stop and dump, trucks dumping loads of dirt, automobile and motorcycle traffic on road in background - truck loaded with rock driven along dirt road - line of parked truck tractors, drivers posing with them - man in road signaling truck tractors to start, they leave parking spaces in turn and are driven down road - covered van on country road, stops, man gets out and opens door in side of van - dump truck stops, bed lifts. [1930]