Clara Bryant Ford and Myrle Clarkson Driving Ford Model N at the Piquette Avenue Plant, Detroit, Michigan, 1906

Summary

Clara Ford, wife of Henry Ford, and Myrle Clarkson, a secretary at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant, drive a Model N out of the plant. The Model N was the low-priced but smaller predecessor to the Model T. The Model T was designed and first built in this building, at the corner of Piquette Avenue and Beaubien Street in Detroit.

Clara Ford, wife of Henry Ford, and Myrle Clarkson, a secretary at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant, drive a Model N out of the plant. The Model N was the low-priced but smaller predecessor to the Model T. The Model T was designed and first built in this building, at the corner of Piquette Avenue and Beaubien Street in Detroit.

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1906

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.P.O.3511

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8.125 in

Width: 10.25 in

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