Fire at the Ford Rotunda Building, Dearborn, Michigan, 1962
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Ford Motor Company brought its central Rotunda building from the 1934 Century of Progress Exposition back to Dearborn and, from 1936 to 1962, recreated the excitement of a World's Fair exposition on its home turf. This photo vividly depicts the Ford Rotunda fire, November 9, 1962, caused when a sealer for the geodesic dome ignited accidentally from a propane heater.
Ford Motor Company brought its central Rotunda building from the 1934 Century of Progress Exposition back to Dearborn and, from 1936 to 1962, recreated the excitement of a World's Fair exposition on its home turf. This photo vividly depicts the Ford Rotunda fire, November 9, 1962, caused when a sealer for the geodesic dome ignited accidentally from a propane heater.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
09 November 1962
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.833.130646.135
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: 8.25 in
Width: 10 in
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