Attended Thomas the Tank Engine at work today with my cousins. First time with a two year old. Best moment was when she said, “Thomas, I know him.” Made my heart melt.
This Heinz food display from around 1930 features a small selection of its strained baby food--beets, tomatoes, carrots, prunes, spinach, and green beans. #Yum #ArchivesBabies #ArchivesHashtagParty #BensonFordRC @thehenryford thehenryford.org/collections…
It wouldn't be an #ArchivesBabies hashtag party if we didn't invite Dr. Spock to the festivities! The edition dates from 1955. #ArchivesHashtagParty #BensonFordRC @thehenryford thehenryford.org/collections…
A nurse taking care of a baby in an incubator at Henry Ford Hospital, August 1940. #ArchivesBabies #ArchivesHashtagParty #BensonFordRC @thehenryford thehenryford.org/collections…
Aww, what a cute baby. Hard to believe that she grew up to be the owner of the Detroit Lions. Yes, that is Martha Parke Firestone Ford. #ArchivesBabies #ArchivesHashtagParty #BensonFordRC @thehenryford thehenryford.org/collections…
1959 advertisement for Chux Disposable Diapers. They were also mediated against diaper rash. #ArchivesBabies #ArchivesHashtagParty #BensonFordRC @thehenryford thehenryford.org/collections…
Who is this little guy? Why, it's our founder, Henry Ford, at about 3 years old (around 1865-1866). #ArchivesBabies #ArchivesHashtagParty #BensonFordRC @thehenryford thehenryford.org/collections…
Print of the Cathedral in Mexico City, circa 1900. From the Detroit Publishing Company. #BensonFordRC @thehenryford thehenryford.org/collections…
Hello, @AmazonHelp. Earlier today I bought a gift card on your website and you have now temporarily blocked my account for suspended activity. There was no reason to; I did indeed buy the gift card. But now I locked out of Amazon account and my FireStick. This is unacceptable. 1/
#OTD in 1970, 4 students were killed and 9 students were wounded when Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on protestors and observers at Kent State University. Never forget.
99.109.72 #BensonFordRC #KentState #4May1970 @thehenryford

ALT A poster advocating for the release of political prisoners from U.S. jails, the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Cambodia, and that universities end military research. It features two drawings, one of Bobby Seale and one of the image of the student crying over the body of Jeffrey Miller at Kent State.
In 2017, @thehenryford received materials from the Am. Textile History Mus. Among this was about 3000 cubic ft of archival materials, incl this 1889 sample card from Cocheco for its style "Tart." #NationalTextileDay #BensonFordRC thehenryford.org/collections…
Remembering singer and songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. The #BensonFordRC has this copy of the sheet music for his song "Sundown" in its Music Collection. #GordonLightfoot @thehenryford

ALT Front cover of a piece of sheet music. The upper half is a dark copper color with the title of the song, Sundown, in block white lowercase letters at the top. The bottom half of the cover is filled with a black and white image of Gordon Lightfoot, a white man with curly brown hair, with a cigarette between his lips and a guitar in his hands.
This is what cross-stitch does for me.
“What I got from knitting, it was more meditative. It served to quiet my mind in the way that I needed.” –Michelle Obama #TheLightWeCarry
Whether you love them or hate them, today is still #NationalCubicleDay. Originally designed by Robert Propst and called the Action Office, this sketch dates to Feb. 1964. Propst's papers are at the #BensonFordRC. @thehenryford thehenryford.org/collections…
Pick any bookcase in your house. Second shelf from the top. Sixth book from the right? What is it?
“Ford at Fifty: An American Story” Not became of where I work, but because it was one of my grandpa’s books.
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Robert Propst designed this bed-chair for use in hospitals in 1959. #WorldDesignDay #BensonFordRC @thehenryford thehenryford.org/collections…














