SOURCE_MANIFEST — Henry Ford
Ford died 1947 (life + 70 → public domain); My Life and Work was published in
the US in 1922 → public domain by US pre-1928 rule. Deep public domain either way.
| work | file | edition | URL | confidence | notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| My Life and Work | mylifeandwork_pg7213.txt |
Project Gutenberg #7213 (Ford with Samuel Crowther, 1922) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7213 | high | The founding statement of Ford's industrial philosophy (1922). Complete: introduction «What Is the Idea?» + 19 chapters + index. Ford's own spellings/punctuation preserved (labour, colour, _italic_ markers, curly quotes “ ” and em-dashes —). |
Corpus assembled
The single proof work is My Life and Work. Samuel Crowther is the credited
co-writer/amanuensis; the book is written throughout in Ford's first-person
expository voice («I», «we», «my idea»), so voice: ford tags the whole text.
See CORPUS_BOUNDARY.md for the chapters selected as the evidence pool and for
the status of Ford's other writings (which are explicitly out of corpus).
Attribution layers (voice metadata)
voice: ford— Ford's own first-person expository voice (nearly the whole
book; Crowther is the ghost-writer, not a second authorial voice).- Ford occasionally quotes or references others (Emerson is quoted; a bank
officer, «parlour experts» are paraphrased). Those are marked in the prose;
they are evidence for Ford's doctrine, not independent authorities here.
RU layer
No PD Russian translation of My Life and Work was ingested. All Russian
renderings in this vault are our own careful translations from the PD English,
marked «перевод наш». English is the primary evidence pool; every evidence
blockquote is a verbatim English substring of mylifeandwork_pg7213.txt.
Self-check
scripts/verify_quotes.py re-checks that every > blockquote in concepts/,
principles/ and chains/ is a whitespace-normalized, case-exact verbatim
substring of sources/mylifeandwork_pg7213.txt, and that every [[wikilink]]
resolves. sources/qsearch.py is the single-phrase helper used while writing.