Pic of the Month - Archived

	2014	2013	2012
Jan	Ford’s Five-Dollar Day	White Castle® Restaurants: From Flipping Burgers to a Career for Don Dunivent	The Rosa Parks Bus
Feb	The Beatles Conquer America	Segregated Travel and the Uncommon Courage of Rosa Parks	The George Washington Camp Bed
Mar	Irish Glass	Ruth McConnell’s Broderie Perse Quilt	Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park Laboratory
Apr		Soybeans: Henry Ford’s Miracle Crop	The Lincoln Rocker
May		Take a Bus Ride	Exploded Model T
Jun		1963 Studebaker Avanti Coupe	Wright Cycle Shop
Jul		Painting a Scene, Cementing an Image: Depicting Henry Ford’s Youth	Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion House
Aug		Henry Ford’s Classical Violins	Newcomen Engine
Sep		Ford Methods and the Ford Shops	1896 Duryea Runabout
Oct		Gothic Revival: An “Alternative” Trend for Victorian Americans	1938 Massey-Harris Combine Model 20
Nov		John F. Kennedy: New Collections, New Stories	Kennedy Presidential Limousine
Dec		Christmas Fantasy at the Ford Rotunda	1858 “Sam Hill” Steam Locomotive

	2011	2010	2009
Jan	The Jazz Bowl: Emblem of a City, Icon of an Age	Photobooth Pictures: Self-Portraits in a Heartbeat	The Moore Telephone
Feb	A Horse-Drawn Recycler	A Rosa Parks Baseball? Inspiring Curt Flood’s Battle with Major League Baseball	At Home with the Lincolns
Mar	Silk in Their Blood	No pic :-(	Happy 50th Birthday, Barbie!
Apr	No pic :-(	A View from the Pit and Paddock: The Dave Friedman Racing Collection	The Rise and Fall of the Osborne Computer Corporation
May	No pic :-(	Fast Cars and Warm Quilts: Auto Racing’s “Quilt Lady”	Americana on the Road
Jun	No pic :-(	No pic :-(	Goldenrod – Cheating the Wind, Setting a Record
Jul	No pic :-(	On the Wire	Victorian America’s Love Affair with Wallpaper
Aug	Keeping Cool the Victorian Way	Storing Stuff in Early America	What Does a Combine Combine?
Sep	No pic :-(	The First Automobile Advertisements	Lighting the Way for Early Automobiles
Oct	No pic :-(	No pic :-(	Light's Golden Jubilee: The Movie
Nov	No pic :-(	George Washington Carver’s Tools	Abraham Lincoln in Photographs
Dec	No pic :-(	No pic :-(	Clues in the Coverlets

	2008	2007	2006
Jan	Advertising the Ford Model T	1879 Hand Book of Winter Sports	A Sailor's Tribute
Feb	Art from Everyday Life: The Quilts of Susana Allen Hunter	Molding Ideas	George Washington, American Hero and Symbol
Mar	The Hitchcock Chair, an American Innovation	Hybrid Cars: If they weren't a good idea in 1916, why are they a good idea now?	Rooting for the Team
Apr	"T" is for Tractor: The Ford Model T on the Farm	"Yours From Everlast, The Finest—Bar None!" Aluminum Giftware in the Mid-20th Century	Jenny Young Chandler, Photojournalist
May	1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings Trading Card	Horse Power!	Restoring Sir John Bennett’s Giants
Jun	American Chocolate Classics	Counterculture Makes the Scene	Eva Tanguay, Vaudeville’s Star
Jul	No pic :-(	The Cost of Good Roads	Henry Ford, Movie Mogul
Aug	Caught on Camera: Wilbur Wright's 1908 Flying Demonstration in France	Photographs in an Instant	Help for the Wounded
Sep	Ford’s Model T: A Car for the Great Multitude	No pic :-(	The Art of Building: Grimm Jewelry Store
Oct	Old 16	A Tree Grows in Dearborn	Nikola Tesla Death Mask
Nov	Milton Russell: Uncommon Valor during the Civil War	Noguchi Radio Nurse	Lamy's: A Diner from the Golden Age
Dec	Thomas Edison Goes Hollywood	Henry Ford Plays Santa Claus	Hanukkah: Festival of Lights

	2005	2004	2003
Jan	Children's Sled	Model Harrow	Early Auto Show Programs
Feb	African American Baptizing Scene Postcards	Star of Bethlehem Quilt	March on Washington Pennant
Mar	Who Made Elizabeth Parke Firestone's Wedding Dress?	Immigrant's Trunk	Ruth Adler Schnee Design
Apr	Firestone Barn, a Pennsylvania Bank Barn	Transportation Replicas	World's Tournament of Base Ball
May	Mourning Lincoln	Robert O. Derrick and Henry Ford Museum	1859 Corliss Steam Engine
Jun	Dressing for Bicycling Success	Leisure Suits	First Ford Motor Company Checkbook
Jul	Tools for a Lovely Lawn	Edison's Last Breath	Secret Agent Men (and Women)
Aug	1924 Fruit Growers Express Refrigerator Car	A Genteel Chariot	Fordson Tractor
Sep	Walt Disney Visits Henry Ford's Greenfield Village	William Perry – First African American Hired by Ford Motor Company	The Ivory Soap® Contest
Oct	Sketching Henry Ford's Lawsuit	Light’s Golden Jubilee	Halloween Ephemera
Nov	DC-3 Airplane	Harrows of The Henry Ford	Detroit Central Farmers Market
Dec	Electricity?—I’ll take a pound…	1750 Mixing Table	American Christmas Cards

	2002	2001	2000
Jan	Movie Magazines	1962 Barbie Dream House	No pic :-(
Feb	Rosa Parks Bus	Black Swan Records: "Oh, Daddy" by Ethel Waters	"Crazy Blues" sheet music
Mar	Mrs. Firestone's Couture Dresses	1811 Dickson Engine	Norman Rockwell painting
Apr	Town Bands	Bickford & Huffman Grain Drill	The Brewster Chair
May	"Our Hero," Charles Lindbergh	Carousel Toys	Air Jordans
Jun	Rose Cottage	Detroit Publishing Company Photographs	Atlantic Locomotive
Jul	Reapers	Plastic Picnic Table Cover	1800s Earthenware Baseball Plate
Aug	Miniature Glass Figures	1926 Ingersoll-Rand Diesel-electric Locomotive	Stover Windmill
Sep	Photographers of the 20th Century Industrial Landscape	1897 Weights and Measures Chart	No pic :-(
Oct	1997 General Motors EV1	R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House	Westinghouse Threshing Machine
Nov	A Turkey for the Thanksgiving Holiday	1901 Ford Race Car "Sweepstakes"	Daguerreotypes
Dec	Daggett House	Firefighting Equipment	Canadian Pacific Snowplow

	1999	1997	1996
Jan	Special occasion dresses	Cadillac New Year's Advertisement	1939 World's Fair poster
Feb	1703 Stradivarius violin	Portrait of W. C. Handy	Valentine Postcard
Mar	Oliver chilled plow	1720 Press Cupboard	Property Auction Broadside
Apr	German secretary desk, ca. 1720-1780	Telegraph set at Smith's Creek Depot	"April Showers" sheet music
May	1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible	1880s Baseball Trade Card	D. M. Ferry & Co. Trade Card
Jun	Classic lunch boxes	18th century tea service	Receipt for a bicycle chain purchased by Henry Ford
Jul	No pic :-(	1865 Lincoln White House Lithograph	Sesquicentennial International Exposition souvenir
Aug	1^st Kodak camera	ca. 1855 Gothic steam engine	Travel Literature
Sep	Budd XR-400 Convertible	1899 Locomobile Steam Runabout	McGuffey Readers
Oct	Allis-Chalmers Tractor	Steam Traction Engine	Thurston the Great Magician poster
Nov	Edison's kinetoscopes	Burger Chef Star Wars® Funmeal® Tray	1912 Presidential Election Ballot
Dec	Nickelodeons	A light bulb machine	Edsel Ford's letter to Santa