Professional Hockey Player and Ford Employee Bill Jennings, August 1944

Summary

Canadian Bill Jennings played in 108 National Hockey League games between 1941 and 1945. He played right wing for the Detroit Red Wings and the Boston Bruins. This photo was taken while Jennings was employed in plant protection at Gate 4 at Ford Motor Company's Rouge factory complex in Dearborn, Michigan.

Canadian Bill Jennings played in 108 National Hockey League games between 1941 and 1945. He played right wing for the Detroit Red Wings and the Boston Bruins. This photo was taken while Jennings was employed in plant protection at Gate 4 at Ford Motor Company's Rouge factory complex in Dearborn, Michigan.

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

03 August 1944

Collection Title

General Photographs Series 

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

64.167.833.P.80420.154

Credit

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

Material

Paper (Fiber product)
Linen (Material)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 11.938 in

Width: 8.188 in

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