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- Hallmark "Winter Park: Cozy Bench" Christmas Ornament, 2007 - Already known for greeting cards, Hallmark introduced a line of Christmas ornaments in 1973. The company's annual release of an increasing array of ornaments revolutionized Christmas decorating, appealing to customers' interest in marking memories and milestones as well as expressing one's personality and unique tastes.
- 2007
- Collections - Artifact
Hallmark "Winter Park: Cozy Bench" Christmas Ornament, 2007
Already known for greeting cards, Hallmark introduced a line of Christmas ornaments in 1973. The company's annual release of an increasing array of ornaments revolutionized Christmas decorating, appealing to customers' interest in marking memories and milestones as well as expressing one's personality and unique tastes.
- Greenfield Village Corner Trash Can, circa 1935 -
- circa 1935
- Collections - Artifact
Greenfield Village Corner Trash Can, circa 1935
- Bench Used with Atwater Kent "Modernistic Style" Model 37 Radio Receiver and Type E Amplifier, 1928 -
- 1928
- Collections - Artifact
Bench Used with Atwater Kent "Modernistic Style" Model 37 Radio Receiver and Type E Amplifier, 1928
- Loom Bench, circa 1875 -
- circa 1875
- Collections - Artifact
Loom Bench, circa 1875
- Garden Bench, Used in Tioga Cemetery, Athens, Pennsylvania, circa 1890 -
- circa 1890
- Collections - Artifact
Garden Bench, Used in Tioga Cemetery, Athens, Pennsylvania, circa 1890
- Walter Dorwin Teague Design for a Rest Bench for Use in Henry Ford Museum, September 1, 1939 -
- September 01, 1939
- Collections - Artifact
Walter Dorwin Teague Design for a Rest Bench for Use in Henry Ford Museum, September 1, 1939
- Bench Seat Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama - In 2023, The Henry Ford acquired the Selma, Alabama, home of Dr. Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson, where Dr. Martin Luther King and Civil Rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights marches. The Jackson Home opened in Greenfield Village in 2026. The home and its contents not only document the voting rights struggle but also shed light on 20th-century Black American middle-class life.
- 1950-1965
- Collections - Artifact
Bench Seat Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama
In 2023, The Henry Ford acquired the Selma, Alabama, home of Dr. Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson, where Dr. Martin Luther King and Civil Rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights marches. The Jackson Home opened in Greenfield Village in 2026. The home and its contents not only document the voting rights struggle but also shed light on 20th-century Black American middle-class life.
- Printing Plate with Image of a Bench -
- Collections - Artifact
Printing Plate with Image of a Bench
- Bench, Designed by Walter Dorwin Teague, 1939 - A pioneer of industrial design, Walter Dorwin Teague is best known for his work for the Eastman Kodak Company and the 1933 Chicago and 1939 New York World's Fairs. At both Fairs he designed the Ford Buildings, which included prototypes of these benches. During the 1939 Fair, Edsel Ford commissioned a group of these benches for the Museum.
- 1939
- Collections - Artifact
Bench, Designed by Walter Dorwin Teague, 1939
A pioneer of industrial design, Walter Dorwin Teague is best known for his work for the Eastman Kodak Company and the 1933 Chicago and 1939 New York World's Fairs. At both Fairs he designed the Ford Buildings, which included prototypes of these benches. During the 1939 Fair, Edsel Ford commissioned a group of these benches for the Museum.
- Bench From IBM Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair -
- 1963-1964
- Collections - Artifact
Bench From IBM Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair