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- Thomas A. Edison as a Newsboy and Candy Butcher, circa 1861 - A ruddy Thomas Edison sat for this portrait around age fourteen, while he was working on the Grand Trunk Railway. Edison sold popular newspapers and magazines, cigars, and candy to passengers traveling between his hometown of Port Huron and Detroit, Michigan. Edison also printed and sold his own newspaper, displaying the creative, entrepreneurial spirit that would characterize his life.
- circa 1861
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Thomas A. Edison as a Newsboy and Candy Butcher, circa 1861
A ruddy Thomas Edison sat for this portrait around age fourteen, while he was working on the Grand Trunk Railway. Edison sold popular newspapers and magazines, cigars, and candy to passengers traveling between his hometown of Port Huron and Detroit, Michigan. Edison also printed and sold his own newspaper, displaying the creative, entrepreneurial spirit that would characterize his life.
- East Side of Woodward Avenue at Michigan Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, circa 1890 -
- circa 1890
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East Side of Woodward Avenue at Michigan Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, circa 1890
- Newsboys at Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1939 - Ford Motor Company poured resources into the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, spending more than $5 million to construct and maintain its elaborate and well-attended exhibition space. Ford hosted many special guests during the two-year event--including this group of newsboys, who numbered among the reported 15 million fairgoers to visit the company's exposition.
- August 23, 1939
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Newsboys at Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1939
Ford Motor Company poured resources into the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, spending more than $5 million to construct and maintain its elaborate and well-attended exhibition space. Ford hosted many special guests during the two-year event--including this group of newsboys, who numbered among the reported 15 million fairgoers to visit the company's exposition.
- Newsboys at Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1939 - Ford Motor Company poured resources into the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, spending more than $5 million to construct and maintain its elaborate and well-attended exhibition space. Ford hosted many special guests during the two-year event--including this group of newsboys, who numbered among the reported 15 million fairgoers to visit the company's exposition.
- August 23, 1939
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Newsboys at Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1939
Ford Motor Company poured resources into the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, spending more than $5 million to construct and maintain its elaborate and well-attended exhibition space. Ford hosted many special guests during the two-year event--including this group of newsboys, who numbered among the reported 15 million fairgoers to visit the company's exposition.
- Fundraising Letter from James W. Bishop to Edsel Ford, for the Old Newsboys' Goodfellow Fund, November 22, 1937 -
- November 22, 1937
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Fundraising Letter from James W. Bishop to Edsel Ford, for the Old Newsboys' Goodfellow Fund, November 22, 1937
- Union Representatives Handing out Literature at Ford Rouge Plant, 1937 - The image shows continuing United Auto Workers activity outside the Ford Rouge plant less than three months following the "Battle of the Overpass," in which Ford Motor Company security men beat labor organizers Walter Reuther, Richard Frankensteen, Richard Merriweather, and Ralph Dunham. Men and women hand out special editions of the <em>United Auto Worker</em> UAW newspaper while boys sell <em>Detroit Free Press</em> newspapers.
- August 11, 1937
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Union Representatives Handing out Literature at Ford Rouge Plant, 1937
The image shows continuing United Auto Workers activity outside the Ford Rouge plant less than three months following the "Battle of the Overpass," in which Ford Motor Company security men beat labor organizers Walter Reuther, Richard Frankensteen, Richard Merriweather, and Ralph Dunham. Men and women hand out special editions of the United Auto Worker UAW newspaper while boys sell Detroit Free Press newspapers.
- Trade Card for J. Wesley & Sons Low Priced Clothiers, circa 1860 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- circa 1860
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Trade Card for J. Wesley & Sons Low Priced Clothiers, circa 1860
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- Detroit Times Newsboys at Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1939 - Ford Motor Company poured resources into the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, spending more than $5 million to construct and maintain its elaborate and well-attended exhibition space. Ford hosted many special guests during the two-year event--including this energetic group of Detroit Times newsboys, who numbered among the reported 15 million fairgoers to visit the company's exposition.
- June 06, 1939
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Detroit Times Newsboys at Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1939
Ford Motor Company poured resources into the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, spending more than $5 million to construct and maintain its elaborate and well-attended exhibition space. Ford hosted many special guests during the two-year event--including this energetic group of Detroit Times newsboys, who numbered among the reported 15 million fairgoers to visit the company's exposition.
- Thomas A. Edison as a Newsboy and Candy Butcher, circa 1861 - A ruddy Thomas Edison sat for this portrait around age fourteen, while he was working on the Grand Trunk Railway. Edison sold popular newspapers and magazines, cigars, and candy to passengers traveling between his hometown of Port Huron and Detroit, Michigan. Edison also printed and sold his own newspaper, displaying the creative, entrepreneurial spirit that would characterize his life.
- circa 1861
- Collections - Artifact
Thomas A. Edison as a Newsboy and Candy Butcher, circa 1861
A ruddy Thomas Edison sat for this portrait around age fourteen, while he was working on the Grand Trunk Railway. Edison sold popular newspapers and magazines, cigars, and candy to passengers traveling between his hometown of Port Huron and Detroit, Michigan. Edison also printed and sold his own newspaper, displaying the creative, entrepreneurial spirit that would characterize his life.