Rouge: Pictured In Its Prime

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When Ford Motor Company was once formed in 1903, its primary assembly plant was once a wooden one-story wagon shop, but as the auto manufacturer grew, so did its factories. By 1917, building on his experience with the Piquette and Highland Park plants, Henry Ford started constructing his ultimate vision of an efficient and effective industrial complex at the banks of the Rouge River. In its time, “The Rouge,” as Detroiters known as it, was once the largest integrated automobile factory on this planet, with facilities that included an electric power plant, blast furnaces, foundries, coke ovens, open hearth furnaces, a steel mill, stamping plant, engine plant, glass plant, and miles of conveyors bringing manufactured parts to moving assembly lines. The Rouge was once in a position to supply over 100,000 jobs and effectively gave birth to the city of Dearborn.

Rouge: Pictured in Its Prime, featuring 389 photographs taken within 45 different departments of the Rouge by Ford photographers from 1918 to 1940, provides a realistic portrait of buildings, machinery, and employees at work all through a twenty-two year period. The illustrations were selected from a number of more than 70,000 Rouge photographs situated in the Benson Ford Research Center of Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village. In the accompanying text, Ford R. Bryan chronicles the history of the Rouge plant, from its earliest conception to its future in the twenty-first century. The Rouge dominated an era of industrial progress and this photo story brings the monumental facility to life in stunning fashion.

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