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Product Identifiers

PublisherWayne State University Press

ISBN-100814326420

ISBN-139780814326428

eBay Product ID (ePID)940477

Product Key Features

LanguageEnglish

TopicTravel, Transportation, Technology & Engineering, Antiques & Collectibles, Biography & Autobiography, History, United States / 20th Century, Automotive / History, Americana, Inventions, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, Business

AuthorFord R. Bryan

IllustratorYes

Dimensions

Item Length11 In.

Item Height0.9 In.

Item Width8.5 In.

Item Weight43 Oz

Additional Product Features

LCCN2006-001978

Book TitleHenry's Attic : Some Fascinating Gifts to Henry Ford and His Museum

Dewey Decimal607/.3477433

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

SynopsisThis work provides documentation of some of the one million artifacts in the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village., Henry's Attic provides fascinating documentation of some of the one million artifacts in the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. The items represent both Henry Ford's passion for collecting Americana and the astonishing array of gifts?some of great historic value and others of a distinctly homegrown variety?that account for almost half of the museum's collections. It was the quantity of these gifts and the unusual and even unique nature of many of them that provided the inspiration for this book. Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, which Ford established in Dearborn, Michigan in the late 1920s, was intended to recreate the slow-paced, rural character of America before the advent of the automobile. The purchases he made and the gifts he was given reflect his desire to document and preserve the lifeways of common people and to emphasize middle-class rural history, as represented by the tools of agriculture, industry, and transportation., Henry's Attic provides fascinating documentation of some of the one million artifacts in the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. The items represent both Henry Ford's passion for collecting Americana and the astonishing array of gifts-some of great historic value and others of a distinctly homegrown variety-that account for almost half of the museum's collections. It was the quantity of these gifts and the unusual and even unique nature of many of them that provided the inspiration for this book. Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, which Ford established in Dearborn, Michigan in the late 1920s, was intended to recreate the slow-paced, rural character of America before the advent of the automobile. The purchases he made and the gifts he was given reflect his desire to document and preserve the lifeways of common people and to emphasize middle-class rural history, as represented by the tools of agriculture, industry, and transportation.

Publication Year1970

FormatTrade Paperback

Dewey Edition22

LC Classification NumberE161.B79 1995

Number of Pages432 pages