Program

Preservation and Access: Reference Materials - Access

Period of Performance

4/1/1986 - 3/31/1989

Funding Totals

$82,438.00 (approved)
$80,272.08 (awarded)


Direct Visual Access System for the Photographic Collection

FAIN: RC-21168-86

Edison Institute (Dearborn, MI 48124-4088)
Cynthia Read-Miller (Project Director: June 1985 to July 1989)

To support a visual index to a 300,000-image collection of photographs, most commissioned by Henry Ford throughout his long career. These images document the automotive industry, technological and design history, and labor and social history topics from 1900 to 1950.