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Camp Legion and Camp Willow Run Bibliography

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Archival

• Acc. 23 General Personal Records series
  • box 9 Camp Legion and Willow Run
  • box 19 Wells, Linton, June 9, 1940 (speech given at Camp Legion and Willow Run) 
  • box 39 Scrapbooks:
    • 75th Birthday Greetings from Camp Legion, 1938 
    • 79th Birthday Greetings from the Boys of Willow Run Camp, 1942
    • 79th Birthday Greetings from Camp Legion, 1942 
    • 80th Birthday Greetings from Camp Legion, 1943
       
• Acc. 285 Henry Ford Office papers
  • box 2113 Camp Legion, 1938
  • box 2277 Camp Legion, Camp Willow Run, 1939-1940
  • box 2450 Camp Legion, Camp Willow Run, 1938-1942
  • box 2482 Camp Legion, 1941-1942
  • box 2632 Camp Legion, 1943-1944
  • box 2804 Camp Legion, 1945-1946
  • box 2836 Henry Ford School of Vocational Guidance in Agriculture and Industry; formerly Camp Legion, 1945-1946
    
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• Acc. 983 Henry Ford Trade School, Administrative Files series
  • box 2
    • Camp Legion; correspondence, 1944-46
    • Camp Legion; Project, supplement #1, 1946
    • Camp Legion; Project, supplement #1 alternate, 1946
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• Acc. 13 Engineering Library Vertical File
  • box 4 Camp Legion and Camp Willow Run, 1938-1941 (2 folders) (includes student newspapers)
  • box 25 Willow Run Camp Newsletter, n.d.
     
• Acc. 38 Charles E. Sorensen Office Files
  • box 101 Camp Legion, 1944
  • box 104 Camp Legion, 1945
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• Acc. 44 William John Cameron records subgroup
  • box 16 Camp Legion, 1940-1944
     
• Acc. 446 Dealer Film Subject File subseries
  • box 7 Subject file: Camp Legion and Willow Run movie, c. 1934-1942
     
• Acc. 559 E. M. Anderson records
  • box 1 Dearborn: Camp Legion, 1945-1946
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• Acc. 1865 Ford Motor Company Branch Operations Records
  • folder 1 Data: Camp Legion, 1946
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• Acc. 1685 Photographic Library (Earle Hager) records series
  • box 2 "Camp Legion and Camp Willow Run," undated
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• Acc. 951 Ford Motor Company Non-Serial Publications Collection
  • box 5 Camp Legion and Camp Willow Run, 1949
  • box 53 Welcome to Camp Legion, n.d.
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• Acc. 408 Plant Engineering Floor Space records
  • box 3 Layouts: Camp Legion, c. 1938-1948
     
• Acc. 524 Plant Engineering Department
  • box 1 Henry Ford Properties: Camp Legion, c. 1920-1950
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• Acc. 454 Division Executives records series
  • box 3 Camp Legion, c. 1927-1947
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• Acc. 536 Public Relations Research Library press releases subseries
  • box 148 Camp Legion and Henry Ford School of Vocational Guidance (5 folders)
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• Acc. 1 Fair Lane papers subgroup
  • box 123 Camp Legion and Willow Run Chapels, correspondence and promotional materials, 1938-1949
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• Acc. 391 Wendell S. Miller records subseries
  • box 2 Camps Legion & Willow Run, 1941-1946
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• Acc. 33 General subject files subseries, Auditing department
  • box 26 Camp Legion, 1938
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• Acc. 435 Charles C. La Croix Records
  • box 40 Subject File: Willow Run; Camp Willow Run
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• Engineering and Aperture cards
  • drawer 4 Camp Legion, Camp Willow Run
  • drawer 8 Vocational Education - Camp Legion
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• Acc. 1660 Photographic Vertical File series
  • box 67
    • Camps – Michigan – Camp Legion (2 folders)
    • Camps – Michigan – Camp Willow Run
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• Acc. 188 Personal for Henry Ford photographs subseries
  • 23285-288 Back to Farm Project – Camp Legion, 1938
  • 23338-351 Back to Farm Project – Camp Legion, 1938
  • 23356-358 Opening Day, Camp Back to Farm Project, 1938
  • 24041-054 Camp Legion produce, 1938
  • 24131-133 Closing of Camp Legion
  • 25304 Chapel at Camp Legion, 1939
  • 25396-399 Ford tractor cultivation at Camp Legion, 1939
  • 25431-434 Camp Willow Run, 1939
  • 25478-486 Chapel dedication at Camp Legion, 1939
  • 25501-503 Camp Legion Chapel, 1939
  • 25504-511 Camp Willow Run and Market, 1939
  • 25512-516 Camp Legion Market, 1939
  • 25548-555 Camp Willow Run progress, 1939
  • 25598-606 Camp Willow Run, 1939
  • 25642-646 Camp Willow Run, 1939
  • 25700-706 Willow Run – Camp Legion, 1939
  • 25973-975 Ford tractor with potato digger – Camp Legion, 1939
  • 26004-009 Chelsea High School – Camp Legion produce exhibit, 1939
  • 26035-0112 Camp Willow Run progress, 1939
  • 26094-117 Ford tractor cultivating in orchard – Camp Legion, 1939
  • 26489-493 Christmas Tree at Camp Legion, 1939
  • 27273-274 Camp Legion chapel at Willow Run, 1940
  • 27845-849 Chapel – Camp Willow Run, 1940
  • 29681-683 Camp Legion – Willow Run, 1941
  • 71213-235 Camp Legion opening, 1943
  • 72404-409 Threshing oats with combines at Southfield Rd. – Camp Legion, 1944
  • 73156-161 Preparing meals at Camp Legion, 1945
  • 73162-166 Progress at Camp Legion, 1945
  • 73183-192 Progress at Camp Legion, 1945
  • 73247-259 Progress at Camp Legion, 1945
  • 73260-266 Progress at Camp Legion, 1945
  • 73288-295 Progress at Camp Legion, 1945
  • 73298-301 Progress at Camp Legion, 1945
  • 73322-333 Progress at Camp Legion, 1945
  • 73350-360 Progress at Camp Legion, 1945
  • 73558-568 Progress at Camp Legion, 1945
  • 73581-591 Progress at Camp Legion, interior and exterior, 1945
  • 73772-775 Progress at Camp Legion, 1945
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• Acc. 833 General Photographs series
  • box 74 Camp Legion (203a)
  • box 75 Camp Legion (6 folders, 203b - 204b)
  • box 76 Camp Legion (2 folders, 204c-204d)

Ford News

• Camp Legion (Dearborn, MI)
  • A New Lease On Life (Ford program for poor boys). 19:12:280+:1-3
  • A School Vacation Project (Ford farm camps for underprivileged boys), 21:1:13+:1-3
  • They Pay Their Way (Ford farm camps for underprivileged boys), 20:12:274+: 1-3
• Camp Willow Run (Ypsilanti, MI)
  • Ford Looks Forward To 1942 (Ford film about it shown at press conference). 21:10:257+:1-3
  • A School Vacation Project (Ford farm camps for underprivileged boys). 21:1:13+:1-3
  • They Pay Their Way (Ford farm camps for underprivileged boys), 20:12:274+:1-3
  • Willow Run: Another Village Industry. 21:3:72+:1-3

Oral Histories

• 65_112 F. W. Loskowske
• 65_210 Charles Voorhess
• 65_174 Frederick Searle
• 65_122 William Mielke
• 65_230 A. G. Wolfe

Vertical File

• Camp Legion
  • General
  • Sons of WWI Veterans, 1938-1940
  • WWII Veterans, 1944-1945
• Camp Willow Run
  • General
  • Chapel

Books

• Friends, Families, and Forays: Scenes from the Life and Times of Henry Ford. Ford R. Bryan 
        338.76292 F699 B915 2002
• The Public Image of Henry Ford: An American Folk Hero and His Company. David L Lewis  
        338.762 F699 L673 1976