HENRY FORD TRADE SCHOOL,THE [PART 16-20]

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HENRY FORD TRADE SCHOOL,THE [PART 16-20] Covers: ca. 1924–ca. 1927

Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Students in foundry carry molten metal, pour it into molds. “As the stubborn metal is hammered into useful form, so is the developing character of the boy forged into the strength of manhood.” Students in machine shop. “Trained in the science department, boys know the theory as well as practice of electro-plating.” Students electro-plate metals. “In a few moments sufficient nickel has been deposited.” Boy moving completed electro-plated items and buffing them - display of finished work. “Each boy eagerly awaits his turn for training in the car service department.” Student work on automobile chassis - students lower motor into chassis. “Individual instruction inspires confidence and assures rapid progress.” Students watch motor building demonstration by instructor. “These seventeen year old boys are each receiving a scholarship of more than $1,000 a year.” Students testing Model T spring. “Future battery experts in the making.” Students charge and test batteries. “This private school charges no tuition but its students receive from $28 to $70 each month.” Students file past pay window. “Thrift is encouraged by allowing an additional two dollars each month to boys who maintain a bank account.” Students. “Boy clubs furnish additional opportunity for self-expression.” “Exploration Club.” Students with instructor in library. “The boy ‘from Missouri’ is convinced.” Student reaches for book, finds page, hands book to another student. “The club offers companionship and study after hours.” Boys play game, converse at table. “Dramatic Society.” Students in auditorium with cast on stage. “Orchestra.” Orchestra rehearsal, close-up of boys playing various instruments, audience applauding. “Also Radio, Nature Study, Glee Club, and --” “-- the school paper edited by the boys as a part of their advanced work in English.” Close-up of The Artisan, issue of March 14, 1927. “Reporters.” Boys at typewriters receive copy from another boy. “Editorial department.” Three boys at desk in discussion. “Make-up.” Demonstration of newspaper lay-out. Baseball field with game in progress - football field with game in progress. “Since 1916 the Henry Ford Trade School has been training boys in life and not apart from life. Results are demonstrating the rightness of this plan.” “Doing useful work the boys are self-respecting. They have mastered a trade fitting them for advancement in any industry. Their vision of life has been widened and their ambition stirred.” “Alumni of the school are entering every walk of life stronger and better for their contact with realities in the formative period of their early youth.” “Some graduates of the trade school are now instructors.” Instructors pose outside building. “Home. Filled with the spirit of the school and happy in the thought of a day spent in useful activity.” Boys leaving front entrance of school. “The End.” [1927]

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