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- Tintype Studio Former Site after Relocation during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, September 2002 - By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.
- September 01, 2002
- Collections - Artifact
Tintype Studio Former Site after Relocation during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, September 2002
By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.
- Tintype Studio Former Site after Relocation during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, September 2002 - By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.
- September 01, 2002
- Collections - Artifact
Tintype Studio Former Site after Relocation during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, September 2002
By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.
- Walt Disney Posing in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, 1940 - Walt Disney spent years imagining his ground-breaking theme park, Disneyland, before it opened in 1955. Disney visited many places to find inspiration, including Henry Ford's Greenfield Village. During a tour in 1940, he stopped in the village tintype studio. Disney posed for and autographed this portrait for display in the studio
- April 12, 1940
- Collections - Artifact
Walt Disney Posing in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, 1940
Walt Disney spent years imagining his ground-breaking theme park, Disneyland, before it opened in 1955. Disney visited many places to find inspiration, including Henry Ford's Greenfield Village. During a tour in 1940, he stopped in the village tintype studio. Disney posed for and autographed this portrait for display in the studio
- Thomas Edison Statue Relocation Site during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, October 2002 - By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.
- October 01, 2002
- Collections - Artifact
Thomas Edison Statue Relocation Site during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, October 2002
By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.
- Tintype Studio Being Relocated during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, October 2002 - By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.
- October 01, 2002
- Collections - Artifact
Tintype Studio Being Relocated during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, October 2002
By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.
- Greenfield Village Corner Trash Can, circa 1935 -
- circa 1935
- Collections - Artifact
Greenfield Village Corner Trash Can, circa 1935
- Edsel, Eleanor, Clara and Henry Ford with Guests at Tintype Studio in Greenfield Village, 1929-1930 - Just before the official dedication of his historical village in October 1929, Henry Ford decided to add a tintype photographic studio. Ford's staff worked feverishly to complete the building--designed to look like a small tintype studio from the 1870s and 1880s--in one day! Not long after it opened, Ford posed with family and friends in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio for this group portrait.
- 1929-1930
- Collections - Artifact
Edsel, Eleanor, Clara and Henry Ford with Guests at Tintype Studio in Greenfield Village, 1929-1930
Just before the official dedication of his historical village in October 1929, Henry Ford decided to add a tintype photographic studio. Ford's staff worked feverishly to complete the building--designed to look like a small tintype studio from the 1870s and 1880s--in one day! Not long after it opened, Ford posed with family and friends in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio for this group portrait.
- Tintype Studio after Relocation during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, April 2003 - By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.
- April 01, 2003
- Collections - Artifact
Tintype Studio after Relocation during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, April 2003
By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.
- Tintype Studio after Relocation during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, April 2003 - By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.
- April 01, 2003
- Collections - Artifact
Tintype Studio after Relocation during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, April 2003
By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.
- Tintype Studio Being Relocated during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, September 2002 - By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.
- September 01, 2002
- Collections - Artifact
Tintype Studio Being Relocated during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, September 2002
By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.