Henry Ford with Other Employees at Edison Illuminating Company Plant, November 1895
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This 1895 photograph shows a mustached Henry Ford, third from the left in a white coat. Closest to Ford is his friend and fellow employee George Cato. While working as chief engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit, Ford was also building his first horseless carriage, the Quadricycle, with the help of Cato and other friends and coworkers.
This 1895 photograph shows a mustached Henry Ford, third from the left in a white coat. Closest to Ford is his friend and fellow employee George Cato. While working as chief engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit, Ford was also building his first horseless carriage, the Quadricycle, with the help of Cato and other friends and coworkers.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
November 1895
Keywords
United States, Michigan, Detroit
Gilbert, Charles Phelps, d. 1917
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
EI.1929.1909
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: 8.000 in
Width: 10.000 in
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