1956, September: Greenfield Village
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The Faust family visits Greenfield Village, the outdoor “living history museum” attached to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
Credits
Chester E. Faust (filmmaker); Mildred Faust (participant)
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: Chester E. Faust Collection
Notes: Features shots of the entrance to the Henry Ford Museum, Loranger Gristmill, Main Street, Armington & Sims Machine Shop, the Ford Homestead (Henry Ford birthplace), Wright Cycle Shop, a horse-drawn sight seeing bus, Magill Jewelry Store, Heinz House, Sir John Bennett Jewelry Shop, Edison West Orange Laboratory, Edison Menlo Park Compound, Sarah Jordan boarding house, Edison Fort Myers laboratory, Luther Burbank birthplace, Ackley Covered Bridge, Noah Webster House, Cotswold complex, Plympton House, Stephen Foster birthplace, William Holmes McGuffey birthplace, a log cabin, Martha-Mary Chapel, Clinton Inn, Waterford General Store (Elias A. Brown), Town Hall, Dr. Howard's office, a tintype studio, Pheonixville Post Office, and various street scenes.
Subjects: History; Museums
Places: North America > United States > Michigan > Dearborn > Greenfield Village
Cfa elements: 201 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/40195
Notes: Features shots of the entrance to the Henry Ford Museum, Loranger Gristmill, Main Street, Armington & Sims Machine Shop, the Ford Homestead (Henry Ford birthplace), Wright Cycle Shop, a horse-drawn sight seeing bus, Magill Jewelry Store, Heinz House, Sir John Bennett Jewelry Shop, Edison West Orange Laboratory, Edison Menlo Park Compound, Sarah Jordan boarding house, Edison Fort Myers laboratory, Luther Burbank birthplace, Ackley Covered Bridge, Noah Webster House, Cotswold complex, Plympton House, Stephen Foster birthplace, William Holmes McGuffey birthplace, a log cabin, Martha-Mary Chapel, Clinton Inn, Waterford General Store (Elias A. Brown), Town Hall, Dr. Howard's office, a tintype studio, Pheonixville Post Office, and various street scenes.
Subjects: History; Museums
Places: North America > United States > Michigan > Dearborn > Greenfield Village
Cfa elements: 201 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/40195
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:24:54