Walt Disney and Family Visiting Henry Ford Museum, August 1943
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Walt Disney visited Henry Ford Museum with his wife, Lillian, and daughter, Diane, in August 1943. Disney visited the museum and neighboring Greenfield Village multiple times. The latter, with its re-created historical main street, railroad depot, and lagoon and steamboat, undoubtedly influenced Disney's ideas for his own Disneyland theme park, which opened in 1955.
Walt Disney visited Henry Ford Museum with his wife, Lillian, and daughter, Diane, in August 1943. Disney visited the museum and neighboring Greenfield Village multiple times. The latter, with its re-created historical main street, railroad depot, and lagoon and steamboat, undoubtedly influenced Disney's ideas for his own Disneyland theme park, which opened in 1955.
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
20 August 1943
Subject Date
20 August 1943
Keywords
United States, Michigan, Dearborn
Disney, Lillian Marie Bounds, 1899-1997
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
64.167.833.P.78482.3
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: 8 in
Width: 11 in
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