The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century (Vintage) (58 page)

The earliest surviving photograph of Henry Ford, taken when he was two and a half years old

Mary Litogot Ford, Henry Ford's mother, and Henry Ford's father, William Ford

Henry Ford and Clara Bryant around the time of their wedding in the spring of 1888

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Henry Ford (left) and two co-workers at the Edison Illuminating Company

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Henry Ford with his first automobile, the Quadricycle, on the streets of Detroit in 1896

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Henry Ford and Barney Oldfield with the “999” race car in 1901

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Henry Ford and his son, Edsel, seated in the Model F outside their residence on Hendrie Avenue in 1905

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1914 Model T runabout with Ford's famous “winged pyramid” advertising logo

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James Couzens and Henry Ford in the early 1910s

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The assembly line at Highland Park in 1914

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Henry Ford and C. H. Wills in 1925

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Workers lining up thousands of Model T's in storage lots at the Highland Park factory

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Advertisements in 1922 stressing Ford's consumer orientation with the founder's personal injunction to spend the money you saved in buying his inexpensive car

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Henry Ford departing on the Peace Ship in December 1915