Front Entrance of Ford Rotunda Building, Dearborn, Michigan, 1953

Summary

The Rotunda was built for the Ford Motor Company exhibition at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. It was later rebuilt in Dearborn, Michigan, where it served as a hospitality center for tourists from 1936 to 1962. This photograph shows the renovated Rotunda that reopened in 1953 for Ford Motor Company's 50th anniversary. It housed exhibits featuring progressive research and engineering.

The Rotunda was built for the Ford Motor Company exhibition at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. It was later rebuilt in Dearborn, Michigan, where it served as a hospitality center for tourists from 1936 to 1962. This photograph shows the renovated Rotunda that reopened in 1953 for Ford Motor Company's 50th anniversary. It housed exhibits featuring progressive research and engineering.

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

09 September 1953

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

P.833.102803.1

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: 10 in

Width: 8 in

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