Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum By The Henry Ford Museum Staff
The Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum (Scarce Collectible Hardcover Edition)
A Photographic Tribute and Pictorial History of Three and a Half Centuries of American Innovation and Daily Life
A Photographic Tribute and Pictorial History of Three and a Half Centuries of American Innovation and Daily Life
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum
- Author: The Henry Ford Museum Staff
- Publisher: Crown Publishers Inc., New York
- Publication Date: 1972
- ISBN-10: 051750121X
- ISBN-13: 9780517501214
- Edition Details: Presumed First Edition, Combined Volume. A scarce early retrospective of the archives, highly prized by collectors of Americana, transport history, and industrial heritage.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium hardcover binding, heavily bound with crisp embossed titles across the spine.
- Physical Format: Quarto (4to), 245 pages. Lavishly illustrated with deep archival black-and-white plates and vivid full-colour studio photographs documenting relocated landmarks and historic collections.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good (VG)
- Exterior Boards: The original publisher's cloth-bound boards are solid, square, and well-preserved. The spine remains completely intact, uncrushed, and undamaged. There are very minor signs of careful handling along the bottom edges, consistent with a vintage volume of this era. Housed in a defensive cellophane cover to maintain structural longevity.
- Interior: The text block is robust, tight, and securely fixed to the hinges. Internal pages, photo layouts, and historical maps are exceptionally clean, complete, and free from common user defects such as highlighting, ink text underscoring, dog-ears, or dealer pencil marks.
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The Dust Jacket: Very Good (VG)
- Condition & Integrity: The original illustrated vintage dust jacket is present and visually striking. It displays limited, minor signs of edge wear and small surface friction rubs from shelf storage over the decades, but remains unclipped and free from deep tears or substantial paper loss. Now completely stabilized and protected inside an archival cellophane sleeve wrapper.
Synopsis & Historical Value
First issued in this comprehensive format by Crown Publishers in 1972, Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum serves as an authoritative photographic and narrative guide to America's premier living history complex in Dearborn, Michigan. Compiled directly by the institution's expert curatorial staff, this classic volume captures the massive scope of Henry Ford’s vision: preserving the real, everyday objects, tools, and structures that built modern society.
The work bridges two world-renowned attractions. It guides the reader through the sprawling open-air landscape of Greenfield Village—housing relocated treasures like Thomas Edison’s original Menlo Park laboratory, the Wright brothers' bicycle shop, and Ford’s own birthplace—before exploring the nine-acre indoor museum facade styled after Philadelphia's Independence Hall. Filled with rare imagery of early steam engines, pioneer machinery, and legendary transport innovations, this scarce edition chronicles three and a half centuries of the American experience through the eyes of its greatest collector.
Author Profile: The Henry Ford Museum Staff
The curatorial and research staff of The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village (historically established in 1929 as the Edison Institute) comprises a prestigious collective of American industrial historians, archivists, and preservation experts. Tasked with managing a monumental repository of over 26 million artifacts documenting three centuries of innovation, the staff's specialized monographs and reference books are celebrated for their meticulous bibliographic accuracy. Their publications remain essential resources for global historians, engineers, and antique collectors seeking to understand the material culture and technical evolution of the industrial age.
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