# Norfolk, Virginia / Fordson Plant / Mt. Lowe (Mountain Climbing in California) / California Ostrich Farm

Norfolk, Virginia / Fordson Plant / Mt. Lowe (Mountain Climbing in California) / California Ostrich Farm Produced: 1916 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Ferry slip to Portsmouth; automobile and street car traffic. “First National Bank of Commerce.” “Looking west on Main Street.” “Atlantic Avenue Post Office and Board of Trade in background.” “Main Street, East.” “Granby Street.” Marketing geese. “The largest coal pier in the world.” Railroad coal cars. “Colonial Avenue, a prominent residential street.” “Looking toward the residential section from Ghent Bridge.” Automobile, streetcar and pedestrian traffic. “Norfolk has a fine harbor, deep and easily accessible, and through it pass immense cargoes of cotton, peanuts, oysters, coal, lumber, grain, fruit, and other products.” “How Norfolk keeps down the high cost of living-bringing home a live bird.” Man holds a live turkey. “Large shipments of cotton pass through the port of Norfolk and immense cotton warehouses line the docks. This picture shows how the cotton is weighed.” Cotton bales on docks, workers weighing cotton. \[1916\] b. Views of the factory grounds and buildings at tractor plant. \[1917\] c. Mountain slopes, observation post; tourists throughout the following: “Echo Mountain is the summit of the incline railway and here we boarded trolley cars for a wonderfully scenic ride to Alpine Tavern.” Signs, ‘Losflores Canyon,’ ‘Sentinel Rock,’ ‘Millards…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1916
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-9)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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