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Though known most widely for its vast museum and open-air living
history village, The Henry Ford also houses a nationally significant
collection of business records, automotive product literature and
periodicals, manuscripts, photographs, prints, postcards, maps,
trade catalogs, early American dictionaries, and other library and
special collection material. Together these materials are known
as the Library and Archives collections or, equally, as the Benson
Ford Research Center collections.
The largest portion of the Library and Archives collections
is the vast pre-1955 archive of the Ford Motor Company, an archive
that will grow in the near future to include later decades of
the company's history. However, the Library and Archives collections
are much broader than this; overall they mirror the major emphases
of the museum and the village--transportation, agriculture, industry,
communication, and the household--with special emphasis on issues
of production, distribution, and consumption. The Library and
Archives collections are accessible to the public through the
free reading room of the institution's Benson
Ford Research Center.
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