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The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation began as Henry Ford's personal collection of historic objects, which he began collecting as far back as 1906. Today, the 12 acre (49,000 m 2) site is primarily a collection of antique machinery, pop culture items, automobiles, locomotives, aircraft, and other items:
California Automobile Museum (1987–present) / 38.5703872; -121.5117473. California Automobile Museum is an automobile museum located in Sacramento, California. It has a collection of over 150 classic cars, race cars, muscle cars and early models displayed throughout 72,000 square feet (6,700 m 2) of museum space.
Henry Ford Portrait by Fred Hartsook, c. 1919 Born (1863-07-30) July 30, 1863 Springwells Township, Michigan, U.S. Died April 7, 1947 (1947-04-07) (aged 83) Dearborn, Michigan, U.S. Resting place Ford Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan Occupations Engineer industrialist publisher philanthropist Years active 1891–1945 Known for Founding and leading the Ford Motor Company Pioneering a system that ...
February 18, 1958. Fair Lane was the estate of Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford and his wife, Clara Ford, in Dearborn, Michigan, in the United States. It was named after an area in Cork in Ireland where Ford's adoptive grandfather, Patrick Ahern, was born. The 1,300-acre (530 ha) estate along the River Rouge included a large limestone ...
September 8, 1988 (Ford Estate) August 12, 1991 (Edison Estate) The Edison and Ford Winter Estates contain a historical museum and 21 acre (8.5 ha) botanical garden on the adjacent sites of the winter homes of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford beside the Caloosahatchee River in Southwestern Florida. It is located at 2350 McGregor Boulevard, Fort ...
In 1963, to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the birth of Henry Ford, the Ford Foundation donated three million dollars to the City of Dearborn to construct a memorial library. On July 30, 1963, Ford's hundredth birthday, the Ford Motor Company deeded 15.3 acres (6.2 ha) of land to the City of Dearborn for the building. The library was ...
Ford Motor Co. Executive Chairman Bill Ford, the great-grandson of company founder Henry Ford, reviews family memorabilia for the centennial celebration of the Model T at the historic Piquette Plant.
Henry Ford Hospital is a 1932 oil-on-metal painting by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo about her experience of delivering a dead male fetus on 4 July at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, United States, when she was approximately 3 1⁄2 months pregnant. Depictions of childbirth, abortion, or miscarriage are rare in the canon of Western ...