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- Set of Red Wing "Tampico" Tableware, 1955 -
- 1955
- Collections - Artifact
Set of Red Wing "Tampico" Tableware, 1955
- Cake Plate, 1865-1885 - Traditional make-dos are useful and precious objects that broke during their working lives. Their owners felt compelled to restore or repurpose these objects in a variety of ways. Originally this diamond-faceted base likely supported a glass cake plate but was later replaced with a tin plate for use in a middle-class dining room.
- 1865-1885
- Collections - Artifact
Cake Plate, 1865-1885
Traditional make-dos are useful and precious objects that broke during their working lives. Their owners felt compelled to restore or repurpose these objects in a variety of ways. Originally this diamond-faceted base likely supported a glass cake plate but was later replaced with a tin plate for use in a middle-class dining room.
- Cake Plate 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.
- 1960-1976
- Collections - Artifact
Cake Plate 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.
- Cake Plate Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama -
- Collections - Artifact
Cake Plate Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama