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- The Easter Bunny's Origins in America - Spring! A time to celebrate! The season brings longer days, warmer weather, and new life. Budding flowers, baby chicks and lambs, painted eggs, and, of course, the Easter Bunny — all symbolize the return of spring and the end of dreary winter.
- April 15, 2025
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The Easter Bunny's Origins in America
Spring! A time to celebrate! The season brings longer days, warmer weather, and new life. Budding flowers, baby chicks and lambs, painted eggs, and, of course, the Easter Bunny — all symbolize the return of spring and the end of dreary winter.
- Illustrating the Holidays: A Disney Connection - In the 1930s and especially after the Second World War, American greeting card companies began hiring well-known artists and illustrators to design Christmas cards. Artist-designed cards enticed customers to purchase a company's cards.
- December 03, 2024
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Illustrating the Holidays: A Disney Connection
In the 1930s and especially after the Second World War, American greeting card companies began hiring well-known artists and illustrators to design Christmas cards. Artist-designed cards enticed customers to purchase a company's cards.
- TV at The Henry Ford: Live Broadcasts from Greenfield Village - Though we've just started filming our new weekly TV show, this is not the first time The Henry Ford has played host to national television shows. Find out more about our previous television appearances.
- October 15, 2014
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TV at The Henry Ford: Live Broadcasts from Greenfield Village
Though we've just started filming our new weekly TV show, this is not the first time The Henry Ford has played host to national television shows. Find out more about our previous television appearances.
- Art Education: Louis Prang's Christmas Card Competitions - The modern-day commercial Christmas card traces its origins back to England in the early 1840s when Henry Cole distributed holiday greetings on a card designed by John Callcott Horsley.
- December 04, 2025
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Art Education: Louis Prang's Christmas Card Competitions
The modern-day commercial Christmas card traces its origins back to England in the early 1840s when Henry Cole distributed holiday greetings on a card designed by John Callcott Horsley.
- "Turn Down the Leaf and See": Read, See, Touch, Lift, Learn - Boxed and tucked away for many years in the Benson Ford Research Center archives at The Henry Ford, this turn-up book has found a new life — a metamorphosis — much like its title. This "book" — a sheet of cut and folded paper — engaged the reader in tactile learning and instilled moral lessons in interactive ways, conveying lessons and meaning through visual images and texts that change with the lift of a flap.
- July 31, 2024
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"Turn Down the Leaf and See": Read, See, Touch, Lift, Learn
Boxed and tucked away for many years in the Benson Ford Research Center archives at The Henry Ford, this turn-up book has found a new life — a metamorphosis — much like its title. This "book" — a sheet of cut and folded paper — engaged the reader in tactile learning and instilled moral lessons in interactive ways, conveying lessons and meaning through visual images and texts that change with the lift of a flap.
- 100,000 Digitized Objects… So What?: Adding Context Online -
- November 02, 2020
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100,000 Digitized Objects… So What?: Adding Context Online
- The Long March to Voting Rights - In 1965, all eyes turned to Selma, Alabama, as the next stage in the fight for civil rights. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and other activists planned a series of marches from Selma to Montgomery to draw attention to the continued struggle for voting rights for Black Americans.
- March 20, 2026
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The Long March to Voting Rights
In 1965, all eyes turned to Selma, Alabama, as the next stage in the fight for civil rights. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and other activists planned a series of marches from Selma to Montgomery to draw attention to the continued struggle for voting rights for Black Americans.
- Roald Amundsen Over the North Pole - The list of Norwegian Roald Amundsen's polar accomplishments is impressive. From 1903 to 1906, Amundsen and a crew of six navigated the first ship through the famed Northwest Passage. In 1911, he became the first person to set foot at the South Pole.
- July 04, 2023
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Roald Amundsen Over the North Pole
The list of Norwegian Roald Amundsen's polar accomplishments is impressive. From 1903 to 1906, Amundsen and a crew of six navigated the first ship through the famed Northwest Passage. In 1911, he became the first person to set foot at the South Pole.
- Alert Hose Company of Big Rapids, Michigan - Sometime during the late 1870s, members of the Alert Hose Company in Big Rapids, Michigan, posed for the local photographer. Find out more about the company and the men involved.
- April 08, 2022
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Alert Hose Company of Big Rapids, Michigan
Sometime during the late 1870s, members of the Alert Hose Company in Big Rapids, Michigan, posed for the local photographer. Find out more about the company and the men involved.
- It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: A Personal Reflection - Revisit "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" and the way the beloved Halloween TV special's artistic creativity plays off deep-seated childhood memories.
- October 27, 2021
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It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: A Personal Reflection
Revisit "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" and the way the beloved Halloween TV special's artistic creativity plays off deep-seated childhood memories.