Three candidates making campaign plans, Columbia Hotel, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Black-and-white photograph of three candidates seated in the Crystal Ballroom at Columbia Hotel, Kalamazoo, Michigan. View shows three men, each wearing suits, seated in a semi-circle around a square table. All three are looking down at an open pamphlet or newspaper spread out on the tabletop. Henry Ford Jr. holds a fountain pen over the pamphlet. In the background are paneled walls and decorative drapery. The photograph was taken for Henry Ford Jr. and the Kalamazoo County Republican Committee. The photograph is printed in the Kalamazoo Gazette, April 2, 1943, page 17. All are identified. From left to right: Judge Neil Reid of Macomb County circuit court; Henry Ford Jr., chairman of the Kalamazoo County Republican committee; and Ralph A. Hayword, Republican candidate for regent of the University of Michigan and employee at the Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company. Henry Ford Jr was chairman of the Kalamazoo County Republican Committee from 1942 to 1944, and mayor of Kalamazoo from 1945-1949.