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Record Group 48: Finding Aid See also Record Group 21, Phoenix Mill Women’s Museum Entry 1— Folder 1—Wilcox Ford Plant “Pathways
to Auto History,” by Renee Skoglund, “Employees
of the “ “Mill on
Historic Register,” “Group
seeks to turn old mill into art center,”
Plymouth Observer & Eccentric, 11 June 1990 “PCAC on
hold over grant,” The Community Crier,
11 July 1990 Letter to
the Editor of the Michigan
Historical Commission letter of 15 September 1989 announcing that the Plymouth
Mill is on the State Register of Historic Sites Story about
the Wilcox Ford Plant by unknown author Images: Wilcox Ford
Plant postcard (Acc #2002.221.04) Wilcox
Plant front view, taken 25 May 1999 Wilcox
Plant rear view, taken 25 May 1999 Ford Motor
Co. dynamited islands in Ford Motor
Co. dynamited islands in Wilcox Ford
Plant, Wilcox
Plant, 7 views Wilcox
Plant (Acc #L741) Dynamiting
the old Ford dam at Plymouth Plant (L768a)
Folder 2—Articles “Northville Historic Site Picks up Tower
Benefits,” by Sheri Hall, The Detroit News “Exploring
the Village Industries of Old Henry Ford,” “Zaytis’ Rare Personal Glimpse of Henry Ford & His Plant,”
Mill Race Quarterly 17 “Cherry
Hill Ford Factory A Village Industry for Disabled Veterans,” “Ford
‘Village Industry’ was in “Our Car:
The Road Behind,” The “Village
Industry,” The “Henry
Ford’s mills, history preserved,” The
Observer & Eccentric, 4 September 1989 “New Ford
Factory at Northville Has Been Completed,” “Old Henry
Ford’s Village Industries: Tour of Practically Perfect Places to Work,” Detroit Free Press, 24 September 1972 “Ford in “Economist
Looks at Ford’s ‘Village Plants’ as Precursors of Lean Wave,” US Auto Scene, 17 July 1995 “The Last
of Ford’s Renowned Village Industries Closes,” Mill Race Quarterly 17 (Summer 1989) Grist Grinder
3, 9 October 1988 “Little
Plants in the Country”: Henry Ford’s Village Industries and the Beginning of
Decentralized Technology in Modern America,”
by Howard P. Segal, Prospects: An
Annual of American Cultural Studies 3 (1988) “Down by
Old Millstream,” in Ford Country, by
David L. Lewis ( “Resident
Helped “Little
Industries in the Country,” Ford News,
August 1932 Supplement “Little
Plants in the Country,” Ford News,
July 1936 “Henry Ford
and Field and Factory,” APA Journal,
Autumn 1982 “Village
Industries by Little Rivers,” Ford News
16 (April 1936) “Ford Motor
Company Hydro-Electric Power Plants,”
Beyond the Model T “Henry’s
Heritage Hereabouts: Legacy of Henry Ford’s Mills and Factories,” The Ann Arbor News, 7 October 1990 “Parks
officials seek memories of “Local Ford Plants Keep Going on Full Schedule
for Present, at Least,” Plymouth Mail,
no date Remarks
made by Beth Stewart, director of the
Folder 3— “Making History: With cameras rolling, five
former plant workers from Henry Ford’s Phoenix Mill plant tell their stories,” Your Community Crier, 24 January 2003 List of Phoenix Mill Employees ca. 1930s “On the
line in girdles and full skirts,”
Community Free Press, 24 July 2003 (Acc #2003.114.01) “Another
‘Village Industry’ Opens,” “They’ll Be
Summer Brides,” Plymouth Mail, 20 June
1941 “Seizure of
Ford Plant Forces Idleness Here,” “Ford
Company Starts Construction of New Addition at “Ford
welcomed women workers,” The Crier, no
date “Another
Ford Ideal to Help Mankind Crumbles to Earth with Closing of the “ “Factory
Employs Women Who Can’t Afford to Work at Home” Phoenix
Plant paper by Wilcox Scholarship student “Ford
factory recall,” Detroit Free Press,
October 29, 2006
Images Digital Photo of Catherine Soja Digital Photo of
Dorthy
Cook Digital Photo of Mollie Rodman Digital Photo of Theresa Meiden Finlan Cameron Digital Photo of Side entrance to Phoenix Mill Plant, 25
May 1999 Side entrance to Phoenix Mill Plant, 25
May 1999 See Also Record Group 12, Charles Draper Collection Folder 4— “Museum to
honor women in industry,” Detroit News,
7 August 2002 “Honor the
‘Rosie the Riverters’ of Reception
to Create the Phoenix Mill Women’s Museum, folder with various documents, 5 June
2002 “ “One for
the Rosies, Fundraising event for the first of its
kind museum to honor women who worked during WWII,” Your Community Crier, 22 November 2002 “5K run
will benefit “Phoenix
Yard tapped for women’s museum,” Detroit
News, 7 August 2001 “Phoenix
Mill Feasibility Study” May, 2007 Folder 5—Ford Heritage Trails “Ford
Heritage Trails,” Art Beats, March
1990 “Township
donates to Heritage Trail” “Project
will celebrate county’s auto heritage,”
Plymouth Observer & Eccentric, 24 September 2000 “Ford
Heritage Trails,” “Walking
the trail: History lives in area’s backyard” Wayne
County Park System brochure Ford
Heritage Trails brochure (3) Visit Henry
Ford Estate brochure Welcome to
Ford
Heritage Trails Tour flyer (4-green) Ford
Heritage Trails Tour flyer (4-yellow)
Correspondence concerning the creation of the Ford Heritage Trail Tour Directions
for Heritage Trail “The Ford
Heritage Trail” Map Case 4, Drawer 1 Ford
Heritage Trails Folder 6—Miscellaneous “Household
Industries of the Ford Motor Company” (2) “Village
Industries 1941-45” (2) List of
Village Industry plants “Case Study
on Ford’s Village Industry Communities,” by Dale Yagiela Ford taps “Grand
Opening and Dedication of the “An
Historic Connection: Village Industries and A Visit to the Ford Rouge Plant pamphlet (Acc. #2007.34.01) Entry 2—Mills
(pre-Ford) Folder 1—Wilcox and/or Unknown
paper, “Ford Bought and Built Here” D. B.
Wilcox & Son, from Souvenir book of Images: Wilcox
Brothers Mill, 3 copies (one colorized) (Acc #L929) Plymouth
Mills postcard by Davis B. Hillmer (Acc #1112) Wilcox Mill
postcard, 4 copies (Acc #93.104.5, 84.2.10l) Plymouth
Mills in winter Plymouth
Mills, S Hardenbergh Pro., from 1860 Wayne County Map,
3 copies (Acc #96.43.7) Plymouth
Mills drawing See Also Record Group 12, Charles Draper Collection Folder 2— Phoenix Mill receipts (Acc #95.20.7a–
95.20.7f) “ Entry 3—Scrapbooks
Entry 4—Ford Motor Company
Folder 1—100th Anniversary literature “The Road is Ours—100th
Anniversary Celebration” Event Passport, 12-16 June 2003 2002 Annual Report—“Starting Our Second
Century” 2003 Proxy Statement My
Ford, Special Centennial Edition, 100
Years of Ford 100th Anniversary
Commemorative Coin Map
Case 4, Drawer 5 “100 Years of Ford Motor Company,” The “Fabulous Fords,” The “A Century of Audacious Tinkering,” The “Food of the Fords,” The
Folder 2—Ford Times September 1947 (Acc #90.58.3L(a)) October 1949 (Acc #90.58.3L(b)) November 1949 (Acc #90.58.3L(c)) January-February 1950 (Acc #90.58.4L) February 1950 (Acc #90.58.3L(d)) July 1950 (Acc #90.58.3L(e)) December 1950 (Acc #90.58.3L(f)) March 1951 (Acc. #2007.124.15) April 1968 October 1968 December 1970 February 1971 April 1971 June 1971 September 1971 October 1971 October 1972 December 1972 June 1976 Entry 4 (continued)
Folder 3—Product Brochures, Manuals and Images Fordson, the Universal Tractor A World of Better Ideas From Ford, 1981:
Escort, Granada, Fairmont, Thunderbird, Ford Ltd., Mustang The
Ford Mechanic November 1957 “The Making of the Model T,” a new exhibit
celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Birthplace of the Model T 1928 Ford
Model A Touring 1928 1930 Ford
Model 82-B Closed Cab Pickup 1931 Ford 1936 Ford
Dump Truck 1949
Mercury Six-Passenger Coupe postcard (Acc. #99.149.37) 1955
Mercury 1958 Ford Owner’s Manual 1967 Ford 1968
Mercury Station Wagons 1968
Mercury (2 different brochures) 1968 Ford
Cars & Trucks for Recreation 1982 Thunderbird Map Case 4, Drawer 6 1954 1955 1968
Ford…Better Ideas 1968 Fairlane 1968 Fairlane Model T
advertisement (Acc. #2005.017.01)
Folder 4—Company Publications Speech by William C. Ford, Jr., “Ford and
the “Ford at 90,” June 1993
Ford World, September 1998 Ford Motor Company 1961 Annual Report
Shop Talk . . . from your Ford Dealer,
1960
Network: Ford Motor Company Community Relations Newsletter 9 (1995) Ford: An American Legend (Acc
#2001.061.02) An Anniversary Celebration, 1903-1993
Folder 5—Images Ford Motor Company postcard of 12,000
employees (Acc #93.104.19) Model of Quadricycle
(several views) Christmas Card of
Quadricycle Henry Ford (Acc #81.42.11L) Entry 5—Articles
Folder 1—Articles about Ford “Secrets of
the Model T,” by Albert B. Stephenson,
American Heritage, July/August 1989 “Ford’s
‘999’ and Cooper’s ‘Arrow’,” by George DeAngelis, Antique Automobile, November-December
1993 “Some Ford
Contributions to World War II,” by Ford R. Bryan, The “Ford Jr.’s rise to the top sign of stability, profits,” by Daniel
Howes, The Detroit News “To Ford’s
Most Global Division,” 1989 Crier Salute
to Industry & Commerce “Cutler Sketched the “Where
Fondest Memories of Motor King Will Ever Cling” Article on
“Ford: Bill
Ford emerges as front man for the Lions stadium deal and heir apparent to the
family firm,” Detroit Free Press, 6
October 1996 “Death
Returns to Ford Plant, “Ford
Almost Started Empire in “ “The
Estimable Power of Women,” “ “Henry and
Edsel Ford and “The Road
is Ours: 100th Anniversary Celebration, June 12-16, 2003,” The Dearborn Historian 43 (Autumn 2003) “The Ford
Model T 1912 Torpedo Runabout,” The Motor,
19 December 1951 “Shooting
at Ford Plant,” 2nd Press Release, Plymouth Township Police
Department, 18 August 1996 “Shooting
at Ford Plant,” 3rd Press Release, Plymouth Township Police
Department, 19 August 1996 A News
Release from Saline Area Historical Society, Saline, “Henry
Ford’s First Car, the Quadricycle: One Hundred Years
Old,” by Joan M. Klimchalk, The Dearborn Historian 36 (Summer 1996) “The Quadricycle, 1896,” brochure compiled by Kelly Camfield, 1996. “Ford,”
with information about Henry Ford, the Quadricycle
and the Runabout. “US
designates Model T birthplace a historic site,” Detroit News, February 22, 2006 Map
Case 4, Drawer 5—Articles about Henry Ford I and II “Ford Dies
in Cold, Oil-Lighted House,” “Every “Ford Will
Be Buried Today,” The “The Last
Tycoon, Henry Ford II,” The Map Case 4, Drawer 8 “The Ford
Legacy: The cars, the companies, the community,” Crain’s Detroit Business (Summer 2003 (Acc. #2004.237.001) Entry 6—Books Burlingame,
Roger. Henry Ford: The Greatest Success
Story in the History of Industry. Cameron,
W.J., A Series of Talks Given on the Ford
Sunday Evening Hour, 1936
(Acc. #98.76.9) Dahlinger,
John Côté. The
Secret Life of Henry Ford. Ervin,
Spencer. Henry Ford vs. Truman H.
Newberry. Ford,
Henry. My Life and Work. Garden City,
N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, Inc., 1924. (Acc #L2107) _____. The Case Against the Little White Slaver.
Reprint. Ford Motor
Company. Ford at Fifty 1903-1953. Garrett, Garet. The Wild Wheel. Graves,
Ralph H. The Triumph of an Idea: The Story
of Henry Ford. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934.
(Acc #1968C and L2112) Herndon, Booton. Ford: An
unconventional biography of the men and their times. Hershey,
Burnet. The Odyssey of Henry Ford and the
Great Peace Ship. Lasky,
Victor. Never Complain, Never Explain: The
Story of Henry Ford II. May, George
S. A Most Unique Machine: The Miller,
James Martin. The Amazing Story of Henry
Ford. 1922. (Acc #L2108 and 95.98.10) Nevins,
Allan. Ford: The Times, the Man, the
Company. Nevins,
Allan and Frank Ernest Hill. Ford Decline
and Rebirth, 1933-1962. Pagé,
Victor W. The Model T Ford Car. Petersen’s Complete Ford Book. Simonds,
William Adams. Henry Ford and Sorensen,
Charles E. My Forty Years with Ford. Sorensen, Lorin. The Sward,
Keith. The Legend of Henry Ford. Upward,
Geoffrey C. A Home for Our Heritage: The
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