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Henry Ford's 150th Birthday
January - December 2013
Henry Ford founded the Edison Institute (today, known as The Henry Ford) in 1929, as a place where y...
Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s
April 27 - September 2, 2013
Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s helps explain why millions of Americ...
Books, etc. Sale
September 6, 2014 (9am-5pm)
The Benson Ford Research Center is selling its oversupply of automotive and non-automotive printe...
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