Eleanor Clay Vacationing in Maine with Her Family, circa 1905

Summary

Mount Desert Island, Maine, was the scenic playground for some of America's wealthiest families at the turn of the 20th century. Detroit department store magnate J.L. Hudson took his extended family there, including his niece Eleanor Lowithian Clay, on several summer vacations. Later, Eleanor married Edsel Ford and the couple built a summer home on the island.

Mount Desert Island, Maine, was the scenic playground for some of America's wealthiest families at the turn of the 20th century. Detroit department store magnate J.L. Hudson took his extended family there, including his niece Eleanor Lowithian Clay, on several summer vacations. Later, Eleanor married Edsel Ford and the couple built a summer home on the island.

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1905

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.P.O.561

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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