Retrieving Microfilmed Engineering Drawings in Storage at Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant, 1949

THF123709 / Retrieving Microfilmed Engineering Drawings in Storage at Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant, 1949

Artifact Overview

Artifact

Photographic print

Date Made

24 May 1949

Subject Date

24 May 1949

Creators

Place of Creation

Collection Title

Location

Object ID

84.1.1660.P.833.89029.3

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in

Keywords	United States, Michigan, Dearborn Photographic prints Photographs Archiving Cabinets of drawers Microfilms Women employees Ford Motor Company. Rouge River Plant

Artifact
Brochure, "Top Security for Ford Records," Precision Microfilm Corporation, 1951
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Ford Motor Company microfilmed more than a million design and engineering drawings at its Rouge factory complex. The project included not only contemporary drawings, but earlier works going back to the Model T. Microfilm versions could be stored more securely to protect them from fire, flood, or even a potential Cold War bombing.