Ford Motor Co.

ID: 179 ~ Source: Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. Sanborn Map Company, 1920. Map ~ Digital source: Library of Congress ~ Date: 1920
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Top view illustration from map indicating the Ford Motor Co. at W. Grand Avenue and W. 18th Streets. The Homestead Publishing Plant, at this point a part of Ford (built 1915) is to the west of the main factory (built 1917-1918). South of the factory is a picket fence followed by the tracks for the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul Rail Road.

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