The "Vagabonds" Eating a Meal during a Camping Trip, 1918
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Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs eat breakfast underneath a tent at Camp Cheat, near Bolar Springs, Virginia, in 1918. The group, calling themselves Vagabonds, took several camping trips together throughout the eastern United States.
Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs eat breakfast underneath a tent at Camp Cheat, near Bolar Springs, Virginia, in 1918. The group, calling themselves Vagabonds, took several camping trips together throughout the eastern United States.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
1918
Keywords
United States, Virginia, Bolar Spring
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1660.P.34.1918.32
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: 3.75 in
Width: 6 in
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