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Edsel Bryant Ford,the only child of Henry and Clara,was born on November 6,1893.He was named after Henry's childhood friend, Edsel Ruddiman. Henry took this first photograph of Edsel with Clara in the sprlng of 1894. Henry Ford took this photograph of Clara and young
Edsel wearlng Henry's vest in front of 58 Bagley Avenue in 1896. The Ford family rented half of the duplex house on Bagley Avenue in Detroit from December 1893 to June1897.
In a backyard shed at the Bagley Avenue house,
Ford built his QuadricYCle, the gasoline-prOpelled vehicle
that he first demonstrated in June 1896.

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