Pic of the Month - Archived

	2015	2014	2013
Jan	Sound Connections, Strange Formats: Three Artifacts with an Audible Past	Ford’s Five-Dollar Day	White Castle® Restaurants: From Flipping Burgers to a Career for Don Dunivent
Feb	Emancipation Day Celebrations	The Beatles Conquer America	Segregated Travel and the Uncommon Courage of Rosa Parks
Mar	Designing Fashion to Finance Flying	Irish Glass	Ruth McConnell’s Chintz Applique Quilt
Apr		No pic :-(	Soybeans: Henry Ford’s Miracle Crop
May		Ford Meets Disney at the Magic Skyway	Take a Bus Ride
Jun		Mustang: The Birth of an American Icon	1963 Studebaker Avanti Coupe
Jul		The “Scoop” on American Ice Cream	Painting a Scene, Cementing an Image: Depicting Henry Ford’s Youth
Aug		No pic :-(	Henry Ford’s Classical Violins
Sep		Clara Ford’s Roadside Market: A Small Building with Big Aspirations	Ford Methods and the Ford Shops
Oct		"An Artist with the Needles:" Tattoo History at The Henry Ford	Gothic Revival: An “Alternative” Trend for Victorian Americans
Nov		No pic :-(	John F. Kennedy: New Collections, New Stories
Dec		Rural America Shops by Mail	Christmas Fantasy at the Ford Rotunda

	2012	2011	2010
Jan	The Rosa Parks Bus	The Jazz Bowl: Emblem of a City, Icon of an Age	Photobooth Pictures: Self-Portraits in a Heartbeat
Feb	The George Washington Camp Bed	A Horse-Drawn Recycler	A Rosa Parks Baseball? Inspiring Curt Flood’s Battle with Major League Baseball
Mar	Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park Laboratory	Silk in Their Blood	No pic :-(
Apr	The Lincoln Rocker	No pic :-(	A View from the Pit and Paddock: The Dave Friedman Racing Collection
May	Exploded Model T	No pic :-(	Fast Cars and Warm Quilts: Auto Racing’s “Quilt Lady”
Jun	Wright Cycle Shop	No pic :-(	No pic :-(
Jul	Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion House	No pic :-(	On the Wire
Aug	Newcomen Engine	Keeping Cool the Victorian Way	Storing Stuff in Early America
Sep	1896 Duryea Runabout	No pic :-(	The First Automobile Advertisements
Oct	1938 Massey-Harris Combine Model 20	No pic :-(	No pic :-(
Nov	Kennedy Presidential Limousine	No pic :-(	George Washington Carver’s Tools
Dec	1858 “Sam Hill” Steam Locomotive	No pic :-(	No pic :-(

	2009	2008	2007
Jan	The Moore Telephone	Advertising the Ford Model T	1879 Hand Book of Winter Sports
Feb	At Home with the Lincolns	Art from Everyday Life: The Quilts of Susana Allen Hunter	Molding Ideas
Mar	Happy 50th Birthday, Barbie!	The Hitchcock Chair, an American Innovation	Hybrid Cars: If they weren't a good idea in 1916, why are they a good idea now?
Apr	The Rise and Fall of the Osborne Computer Corporation	"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
May	Americana on the Road	1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings Trading Card	Horse Power!
Jun	Goldenrod – Cheating the Wind, Setting a Record	American Chocolate Classics	Counterculture Makes the Scene
Jul	Victorian America’s Love Affair with Wallpaper	No pic :-(	The Cost of Good Roads
Aug	What Does a Combine Combine?	Caught on Camera: Wilbur Wright's 1908 Flying Demonstration in France	Photographs in an Instant
Sep	Lighting the Way for Early Automobiles	Ford’s Model T: A Car for the Great Multitude	No pic :-(
Oct	Light's Golden Jubilee: The Movie	Old 16	A Tree Grows in Dearborn
Nov	Abraham Lincoln in Photographs	Milton Russell: Uncommon Valor during the Civil War	Noguchi Radio Nurse
Dec	Clues in the Coverlets	Thomas Edison Goes Hollywood	Henry Ford Plays Santa Claus

	2006	2005	2004
Jan	A Sailor's Tribute	Children's Sled	Model Harrow
Feb	George Washington, American Hero and Symbol	African American Baptizing Scene Postcards	Star of Bethlehem Quilt
Mar	Rooting for the Team	Who Made Elizabeth Parke Firestone's Wedding Dress?	Immigrant's Trunk
Apr	Jenny Young Chandler, Photojournalist	Firestone Barn, a Pennsylvania Bank Barn	Transportation Replicas
May	Restoring Sir John Bennett’s Giants	Mourning Lincoln	Robert O. Derrick and Henry Ford Museum
Jun	Eva Tanguay, Vaudeville’s Star	Dressing for Bicycling Success	Leisure Suits
Jul	Henry Ford, Movie Mogul	Tools for a Lovely Lawn	Edison's Last Breath
Aug	Help for the Wounded	1924 Fruit Growers Express Refrigerator Car	A Genteel Chariot
Sep	The Art of Building: Grimm Jewelry Store	Walt Disney Visits Henry Ford's Greenfield Village	William Perry – First African American Hired by Ford Motor Company
Oct	Nikola Tesla Death Mask	Sketching Henry Ford's Lawsuit	Light’s Golden Jubilee
Nov	Lamy's: A Diner from the Golden Age	DC-3 Airplane	Harrows of The Henry Ford
Dec	Hanukkah: Festival of Lights	Electricity?—I’ll take a pound…	1750 Mixing Table

	2003	2002	2001
Jan	Early Auto Show Programs	Movie Magazines	1962 Barbie Dream House
Feb	March on Washington Pennant	Rosa Parks Bus	Black Swan Records: "Oh, Daddy" by Ethel Waters
Mar	Ruth Adler Schnee Design	Mrs. Firestone's Couture Dresses	1811 Dickson Engine
Apr	World's Tournament of Base Ball	Town Bands	Bickford & Huffman Grain Drill
May	1859 Corliss Steam Engine	"Our Hero," Charles Lindbergh	Carousel Toys
Jun	First Ford Motor Company Checkbook	Rose Cottage	Detroit Publishing Company Photographs
Jul	Secret Agent Men (and Women)	Reapers	Plastic Picnic Table Cover
Aug	Fordson Tractor	Miniature Glass Figures	1926 Ingersoll-Rand Diesel-electric Locomotive
Sep	The Ivory Soap® Contest	Photographers of the 20th Century Industrial Landscape	1897 Weights and Measures Chart
Oct	Halloween Ephemera	1997 General Motors EV1	R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House
Nov	Detroit Central Farmers Market	A Turkey for the Thanksgiving Holiday	1901 Ford Race Car "Sweepstakes"
Dec	American Christmas Cards	Daggett House	Firefighting Equipment

	2000	1999	1997
Jan	No pic :-(	Special occasion dresses	Cadillac New Year's Advertisement
Feb	"Crazy Blues" sheet music	1703 Stradivarius violin	Portrait of W. C. Handy
Mar	Norman Rockwell painting	Oliver chilled plow	1720 Press Cupboard
Apr	The Brewster Chair	German secretary desk, ca. 1720-1780	Telegraph set at Smith's Creek Depot
May	Air Jordans	1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible	1880s Baseball Trade Card
Jun	Atlantic Locomotive	Classic lunch boxes	18th century tea service
Jul	1800s Earthenware Baseball Plate	No pic :-(	1865 Lincoln White House Lithograph
Aug	Stover Windmill	1^st Kodak camera	ca. 1855 Gothic steam engine
Sep	No pic :-(	Budd XR-400 Convertible	1899 Locomobile Steam Runabout
Oct	Westinghouse Threshing Machine	Allis-Chalmers Tractor	Steam Traction Engine
Nov	Daguerreotypes	Edison's kinetoscopes	Burger Chef Star Wars® Funmeal® Tray
Dec	Canadian Pacific Snowplow	Nickelodeons	A light bulb machine

	1996
Jan	1939 World's Fair poster
Feb	Valentine Postcard
Mar	Property Auction Broadside
Apr	"April Showers" sheet music
May	D. M. Ferry & Co. Trade Card
Jun	Receipt for a bicycle chain purchased by Henry Ford
Jul	Sesquicentennial International Exposition souvenir
Aug	Travel Literature
Sep	McGuffey Readers
Oct	Thurston the Great Magician poster
Nov	1912 Presidential Election Ballot
Dec	Edsel Ford's letter to Santa