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[Employees working in Willard Battery Company, Washington, D.C.] – Historic Reproduction

[Employees working in Willard Battery Company, Washington, D.C.], [between 1909 and 1932] — historic photograph
[Employees working in Willard Battery Company, Washington, D.C.], [between 1909 and 1932]. Historic photograph from the Washington DC collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Employees working in Willard Battery Company, Washington, D.C.]

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This photograph shows workers inside the stockroom of the Willard Battery Company in Washington, D.C., a business that supplied automobile equipment during the early years of the car's spread across American cities. The image comes from the National Photo Company Collection, whose photographers documented Washington's commercial life in the first decades of the twentieth century. Its subject, a storage area for automotive parts, offers a glimpse of the everyday work that kept growing motor traffic running. The picture was made on a glass negative, a format common in that era, and its date range falls between 1909 and 1932.

Created / published[between 1909 and 1932]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1940.
NotesNational Photo Company Collection.
SubjectsAutomobile equipment & supplies--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1940. Business enterprises--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1940. Stockrooms--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,297 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-183787

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