President-Elect Herbert Hoover, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Harvey Firestone in Fort Myers, Florida, 1929
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Four celebrities - politician Herbert Hoover, industrialist Henry Ford, inventor Thomas A. Edison, and businessman Harvey S. Firestone - relaxed together in Fort Myers, Florida, in February of 1929. The old friends had good cause for a reunion -- Edison was celebrating his 82nd birthday and Hoover had just been elected President of the United States.
Four celebrities - politician Herbert Hoover, industrialist Henry Ford, inventor Thomas A. Edison, and businessman Harvey S. Firestone - relaxed together in Fort Myers, Florida, in February of 1929. The old friends had good cause for a reunion -- Edison was celebrating his 82nd birthday and Hoover had just been elected President of the United States.
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
11 February 1929
Subject Date
11 February 1929
Keywords
United States, Florida, Fort Myers
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
64.167.188.P.899
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Linen (Material)
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 7.5 in
Width: 11 in
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