Henry's Attic: Some Fascinating Gifts to Henry Ford and His Museum
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (936 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814326420 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Henry's Attic A Customer This book is well thought out, put together, and executed. All in all its very informative and insightful concerning Henry Ford's museum and historical village. If there is anything inherently wrong with the book, its that the scope of the work is too large to fill just one vol. David A. Wormhood said as advertised.. as advertised.. "Historical Information" according to hat girl. My relative designed and built the grain flaker, purchased by Dr. Kellogg to produce a palatable cereal product, and that today we call Kellogg's Corn Flakes. It was great to have a photo and credible documentation for my genealogy files.
Henry's Attic provides fascinating documentation of some of the one million artifacts in the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. The purchases he made and the gifts he was given reflect his desire to document and preserve the lifeways of common people and to emphasize middle-class rural history, as represented by the tools of agriculture, industry, and transportation.. It was the quantity of these gifts and the unusual and even unique nature of many of them that provided the inspiration for this book.Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, which Ford established in Dearborn, Michigan in the late 1920s, was intended to recreate the slow-paced, rural character of America before the advent of the automobile. The items represent both Henry Ford's passion for collecting Americana and the astonishing array of gifts-some of great historic value and others of a distinctly homegrown variety-that account for almost half of the museum's collecti