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Ford Motor Company Richmond, CA Plant Bibliography

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Archival

• Acc. 285 Henry Ford Office Papers
  • Box 1146 Branches – Domestics; Richmond, 1930
  • Box 1313 Domestic Branches; Richmond, California, 1931
  • Box 1437 Ford Motor Company; Richmond, California, 1932
  • Box 1591 Richmond, California, 1933-1934
  • Box 1765 Branches - United States - General; Richmond, California, 1935
  • Box 1829 SHO - SHQ (includes remarks of Senator Samuel M. Shortridge at the dedication of the Richmond, California Assembly Plant, August 1, 1931)
  • Box 2024 Richmond, California, 1937
  • Box 2141 Richmond, California, 1938
  • Box 2285 Richmond, California (includes re: State of California and purchase of Ford cars.), 1939-1940
  • Box 2491 Richmond, California (includes IMBERT Gas Generator – Combustion Device), 1941-1942
  • Box 2672 Richmond, California, 1943-1944
  • Box 2672 Richmond, California, 1943-1946
     
• Acc. 38 Charles Sorensen Papers
  • Box 72 Branches; Richmond, 1933
  • Box 74 Branches; Richmond, 1934
  • Box 82 Branches; Richmond, 1937
  • Box 85 Branches; Richmond, 1938
  • Box 88 Branches; Richmond, 1939-1940
     
• Acc. 46 Ford Motor Company Executive Correspondence Records
  • Box 53 Richmond, 1938
  • Box 76 Richmond, 1939
  • Box 130 Richmond, 1940
  • Box 184 Richmond, 1941
  • Box 224 Richmond, 1942
  • Box 259 Richmond, 1943
  • Box 288 Richmond, 1944
  • Box 300 Richmond, 1945
  • Box 309 Richmond, 1946
  • Box 319 Richmond, 1947
     
• Acc. 371 Branch Correspondence
  • Box 16-17 Richmond. 1940-1945
  • Box 44-45 Richmond, 1946
     
• Acc. 713 Correspondence Subseries. International Division.
  • Box 1 Richmond, Calif., 1947
     
• Acc. 454 Division Executives Records
  • Box 2 Army-Navy E; Richmond, California
     
• Acc. 157 CL Martindale Otto H Husen Files
  • Box 10 Time Study; Richmond, 1936
  • Box 18 Time Study; Richmond, 1937
  • Box 239 Accounts 686-796 analyzed 4-5-40; Richmond
     
• Acc. 391 Wendell S Miller Records
  • Box 10 Branches 1946-1947; Richmond
     
• Acc. 220 Elmer A Eberle Records
  • Box 76 Retail deliveries at Richmond Plant for International Division
     
• Acc. 704 General Manufacturing Department Records
  • Box 5 Richmond - Inter-Office Correspondence, 1951 and 1952
     
• Acc. 429 Plant Histories Background Subseries
  • Box 2
    • Richmond, California
    • Richmond and San Jose, California
       
• Acc. 951 Ford Motor Company Non-Serial Publications Collection
  • Box 18 Ford Richmond Plant Facts
     
• Acc. 246 Public Relations Research Library Press Releases Newspaper Clippings
  • Box 20 Regional Press Releases Subsubseries; Richmond, 1951
  • Box 23 Regional Press Releases Subsubseries; Richmond, 1952
     
• Acc. 378 Public Relations Research Library Subject Files
  • Box 32 San Francisco Ordinance District Historical Report on Richmond Tank Depot, 1944-1945
     
• Acc. 536 Public Relations Research Library Press Releases
  • Box 89 Richmond Assembly Plant, Ford Division Year End Statement, 1952
     
• Acc. 567 Public Relations Managers Records
  • Box 2 Richmond (Cal.) Public Relations - Ford Division - 1952. Correspondence of Ralph Gordon
     
• Acc. 471 Ford Division Records. Public Relations.
  • Box 3 Richmond, Cal., 1944-51
     
• Acc. 89 Frank Vivian Papers
  • Box 1
    • Correspondence, General
    • Photographs, General
    • Publications
    • Richmond Plant
      • Clippings
      • Miscellaneous and Facts, 1936-1940
      • Production
      • 1915 Wage Scale
      • Production Notebook, [1925?]
    • World War II
      • Clippings
      • Correspondence and Notes
      •  Photographs
         
• Acc. 672 Robert Miller Papers
  • Box 2 Defense Production; Richmond Branch, 1941-1945
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• Acc. 435 Charles C LaCroix Records
  • Box 1 Volume 1 (Amphibian) Volume II (Tanks)
  • Box 7 Amphibian
  • Box 25 Amphibian (G.P.A)
  • Box 32 Photographs – All War Products
     
• Acc. 759 Branch Labor and Production Records
  • Box 2
    • Labor files; Richmond, 1936-1944 (3 folders, includes Long Beach)
    • Labor files; Richmond, 1936-1941
       
• Acc. 468 Production Reports
   
• Acc. 64.167.769 Ford Motor Company Vehicle Production Reports
   
• Acc. 2004.1.719 PA Martin Records. Ford Division Production Reports
   
• Acc. 2002.1.1846 Ford Motor Company Payroll Statistics Records
   
• Acc. 524 Plant Engineering Department Records
  • Box 6 Domestic Branches; Richmond
     
• Acc. 696 Renovated Assembly Plants Photographs
  • Box 8 Richmond, California, 1931-1947 (11 folders)
     
• Acc. 833 General Photographs Series
  • Box 7 Richmond-Seattle (14a)
     
• Acc. 1660 Photographic Vertical File Series
  • Box 123 Ford Motor Company; Buildings; California; Richmond

Periodicals

• Richmond News. Ford Motor Company, 1950-1955

Ford News

• See:
  • Ford Assembly Plant (Richmond, CA)
  • Ford Branch (Richmond, CA)

Oral Histories

• 64.167.65.120 Frank Vivian
• 64.167.65.114 Harold W. Wasson

Vertical File

• Ford Motor Company; Plants; North America; California; Richmond