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The Photographs Collection includes more
than 1,025,000 images ranging from early forms such as daguerreotypes
to Ford Motor Company and other archival photograph collections.
The museum's collection of over 27,000 early American photographs
contains excellent examples of the lives of ordinary people in the
United States during the second half of the nineteenth century.
The Ford Motor Company photographs, about 470,000, date from 1890-1955,
and cover the life and interests of Henry Ford and his family, and
all aspects of the Ford Motor Company. Additional archival holdings
comprise over 528,000 photographs from Detroit Publishing Company,
1880-1920, Mack Truck, Inc., 1905-1947, and AAA of Michigan, 1950-1980,
among others. Significant images exist relating to Thomas A. Edison
and his companies, 1850-1931, and the Wright brothers, 1867-1953. |
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