Henry Ford on a "Vagabonds" Camping Trip, 1918
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Calling themselves the Vagabonds, industrialists Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone, and naturalist John Burroughs, took annual camping trips between 1916 and 1924. In 1918, Ford met Firestone in Ohio before joining Edison and Burroughs in Pennsylvania. From there, it was on to West Virginia -- where this photograph was taken -- Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
Calling themselves the Vagabonds, industrialists Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone, and naturalist John Burroughs, took annual camping trips between 1916 and 1924. In 1918, Ford met Firestone in Ohio before joining Edison and Burroughs in Pennsylvania. From there, it was on to West Virginia -- where this photograph was taken -- Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
1918
Keywords
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1660.P.34.1918.39
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: 5 in
Width: 7.5 in
Inscriptions
Typed on back of image: Henry Ford cradling oats, / Bartow, W. Va.
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