Bibliography: Ford Motor Company Women Workers

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Ford Motor Company Women Workers Bibliography

This bibliography was compiled by staff of the Benson Ford Research Center’s Archives and Library Department based on materials in our collections. If you have questions about these resources, please use our Submit a Question feature. If you are interested in duplication, please see our Duplication Resources FAQ.

Archival

  • Acc. 951 Ford Motor Company Non-Serial Publications Collection
    • box 51 This Nation at War (includes info about female employees at Ford Motor Company in England during WWII)
       
  • Acc. 435 Charles C. La Croix Records
    • box 4 Aircraft Engineering Manufacture Vol. 5; Training Women Inspectors
    • box 6 Aircraft Engine Plant Vol. 4; Aircraft School Trains Women Inspectors
    • box 15 Willow Run Vol. 2; Training of Women
    • box 41 Woman Power Movie (not actual film footage)
       
  • Acc. 285 Henry Ford Office Papers
    • box 37 C142 Christabel Pankurst (statistics on women workers in FMC plants), 1921

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  • Acc. 616 News Bureau Manager Records
    • box 1 Ford "Old Timers," 1945 (includes Old Timers Club, Biographies and photographs, 35th Anniversary Banquets)
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  • Acc. 2002.1.1846 Ford Motor Company Payroll Statistics Records
    • box 4-6 Monthly payroll by branch (includes female employee count)
       
  • Acc. 732 Rouge Division Factory Count Records
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  • Acc. 1866 William Cameron Records
    • box 6 Ledger containing Willow Run summaries 7/7/42 -10/9/45 (includes female counts)
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  • Acc. 683 Five Dollar Day Collection
    • box 1 1914 General Letter #206 October 17, 1916
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  • Acc. 157 CL Martindale Otto H Husen Files
    • box 194 Auto Mfg. Assn. Misc. ‘37-’43 (includes article from Automotive War Production “Provisions in Plants for Physical Differences Enable Women to Handle Variety of War Jobs”)
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  • Acc. 378 Public Relations Research Library Subject Files
    • box 30 Women Workers, 1942
    • box 35 Willow Run; Woman at Machine Photograph, 1943
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  • Acc. 536 Public Relations Research Library Press Releases
    • box 28 Design, Women’s Influence, 1952
    • box 113 Women’s Influences; General, Upholstery Photographs
    • box 165 Women Working at Ford (2 folders)
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  • Acc. 6 Edsel B Ford Papers
    • box 48 SQ-SZ (includes Superintendent, Mr. Bicker, memo re: lay off of women in production jobs), 1928
    • box 88 AB-AL (includes Mrs. Alexander re: Company policy of no women hired for ship work), 1933
    • box 114 CR-CZ (includes M. Cronin re: Company policy regarding hiring women for factory work), 1936
    • box 120 WAD-WAY (includes Alexander Wall, Company policy re: hiring women), 1936
    • box 128 STA-SW (includes Mrs. Arthur Stone, re: women’s employment opportunities), 1937
    • box 169
      • EM-EX (includes employment of women in Bomber Plant, hiring requirements), 1942
      • FL-FO (includes Ford Local 600 correspondence re: hiring Black women in War Industries plants at FMC), 1942
    • box 298 B (includes Mrs. J. A. Battle, “only woman Ford dealer”), 1936
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  • Acc. 2009.92 Gloria Rich Hendricks Papers
    • box 1 Press releases, photographic prints, telegrams, itineraries, bulletins, caricatures, pamphlets, and a scrapbook relating to the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair
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  • Small Accessions
    • Acc. 395 Georgia Boyer Hobart Papers (papers relating to career at FMC 1910-1930s)
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  • Acc. 672 Robert Miller Papers
    • box 1 Defense Production photo # 78796-22 Light & Med. Armored Cars w/ women
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  • Acc. 833 General Photographs Series
    • box 77 Henry Ford Trade School 207C (p.833.78909)
    • box 145 Miscellaneous 333C (p.833.78138 and p.833.78138.1)
    • box 172-177 Bomber plant interiors 
    • box 227-228 “Around the Clock” photo series of WWII women workers at the Willow Run Plant
    • box 236 Highland Park 496A (p.833.78011, p.833.78011.1, p.833.78011.2)
    • box 369-371 Personnel  

Ford News

  • Phoenix Mill
    • Location, production, employment, 3:2F:6:4, 3:20L:6:4
    • Interior plant with workers, 5:14L:5:2-4
    • Little Industries In The Country, 12:8:supp.:1-2
    • Village Industries By Little Rivers, 16:4:63+:1-2
  • Makes Mark as Saleswoman in Seattle, 1:22F:7:1--4,2:16L:7:1--4
  • Picture Review (One of the nation's leading automobile saleswomen), 20:8:188:3
  • Ford Good Will Delegates See Former Battlefields, 2:5F:3+:1-4, 2:23L:3+:1-4

Audio-Visual (materials may be restricted due to format, please contact reference staff in advance for access)

  • Story of a Little River. Ford Motor Company Film Collection. 
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kp_dZKT9gg&list=PL608CEC323902DBC1&index=8   

Oral Histories

Vertical File

  • Automobile Industry and Trade - Automobiles - Design and Construction – Women Designers
  • Dealers - Women
  • Ford Motor Company - Women Workers
  • Rosie the Riveter

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