This subseries documents Lincoln, which was built by Lincoln Motor Company of Detroit, Michigan (1917-1940); Lincoln Division of Ford Motor Company (1940-1945); Lincoln-Mercury Division of Ford Motor Company (1945-1958, 1959-2011); Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln Division of Ford Motor Company (1958-1959); and Lincoln Division of Ford Motor Company, which is located in Dearborn, Michigan (2011-Present).

Lincoln Motor Company was founded in 1917 by Henry M. Leland, former manager of the Cadillac Division of General Motors. Lincoln went bankrupt in 1922, but was purchased by Ford Motor Company that same year to compete against Cadillac and serve Ford's luxury make, a position it holds to the present day. After being operated as a separate company for a number of years, Lincoln Motor Company became a division of Ford Motor Company in 1940.

In 1945, Ford merged Lincoln with the Mercury Division to form the Lincoln-Mercury Division (which was briefly joined by Edsel in 1958-1959). Over the course of its business life, two short-lived companion makes were split off from Lincoln: Lincoln-Zephyr (1940) and Continental (1956-1957). Lincoln became its own separate division once more when Ford dropped the Mercury nameplate in 2011. See also Continental, Ford, Lincoln-Mercury, and Lincoln-Zephyr.