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- Photograph Album, California Packing Corporation Hawaii Pineapple Operations, circa 1950 -
- circa 1950
- Collections - Artifact
Photograph Album, California Packing Corporation Hawaii Pineapple Operations, circa 1950
- Photograph Album, California Packing Corporation Operations, circa 1922 -
- circa 1922
- Collections - Artifact
Photograph Album, California Packing Corporation Operations, circa 1922
- Robert Boyer and Henry Ford in a Soybean Field, 1936 - Chemist Robert Boyer, pictured here with Henry Ford, oversaw a series of experiments at Greenfield Village's Soybean Laboratory. The undertaking resulted in a plastic-bodied car. Henry Ford had a strong interest in plastic automobile parts. Always partial to projects combining industry with agriculture, Ford hoped plastic made from soybeans might be developed into a safe, strong substitute for traditional metals.
- October 15, 1936
- Collections - Artifact
Robert Boyer and Henry Ford in a Soybean Field, 1936
Chemist Robert Boyer, pictured here with Henry Ford, oversaw a series of experiments at Greenfield Village's Soybean Laboratory. The undertaking resulted in a plastic-bodied car. Henry Ford had a strong interest in plastic automobile parts. Always partial to projects combining industry with agriculture, Ford hoped plastic made from soybeans might be developed into a safe, strong substitute for traditional metals.