EDISON, THOMAS ALVA, HENRY FORD, HARVEY FIRESTONE and President HERBERT C. HOOVER. Photograph jointly signed ("Thos A Edison," "Henry Ford," Herbert Hoover," "Harvey Firestone"), n.d. [before 1931]. 203 x 255 mm. (8 x 10 1/16 in.), in mat of similar date. A fine joint portrait taken against a background of tropical vegetation at Thomas Edison's home near Fort Myers, Florida, where Edison maintained a laboratory and arboretum. President Hoover, in a dark suit, stands at the left, flanked by the three titans of industry. All have signed in light areas at the bottom of the image. Edison's typical "umbrella" signature appears across the white trousers of Henry Ford. A photograph linking a President and three of the most famous American industrialists. Edison had become acquainted with Ford when Ford worked as chief engineer for the Edison Illuminating Company's Detroit plant and had encouraged him to perfect his automobile designs. In the 1920s a drastic rise in crude rubber prices alarmed American industry. Firestone, with the aid of Ford and the approval of then-Secretary of Commerce Hoover, established rubber plantations in Liberia to ensure a ready supply and Edison initiated a long search for a rubber substitute from familiar domestic plants (much of this research was carried out in Edison's Fort Myers laboratory).
EDISON, THOMAS ALVA, HENRY FORD, HARVEY FIRESTONE and President HERBERT C. HOOVER. Photograph jointly signed ("Thos A Edison," "Henry Ford," Herbert Hoover," "Harvey Firestone"), n.d. [before 1931]. 203 x 255 mm. (8 x 10 1/16 in.), in mat of similar date. A fine joint portrait taken against a background of tropical vegetation at Thomas Edison's home near Fort Myers, Florida, where Edison maintained a laboratory and arboretum. President Hoover, in a dark suit, stands at the left, flanked by the three titans of industry. All have signed in light areas at the bottom of the image. Edison's typical "umbrella" signature appears across the white trousers of Henry Ford. A photograph linking a President and three of the most famous American industrialists. Edison had become acquainted with Ford when Ford worked as chief engineer for the Edison Illuminating Company's Detroit plant and had encouraged him to perfect his automobile designs. In the 1920s a drastic rise in crude rubber prices alarmed American industry. Firestone, with the aid of Ford and the approval of then-Secretary of Commerce Hoover, established rubber plantations in Liberia to ensure a ready supply and Edison initiated a long search for a rubber substitute from familiar domestic plants (much of this research was carried out in Edison's Fort Myers laboratory).
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