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[Three men working on a Ford automobile on assembly line] – Vintage Wall Art

[Three men working on a Ford automobile on assembly line], 1954 — historic photograph
[Three men working on a Ford automobile on assembly line], 1954. Historic photograph from the Automobiles 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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Step back in time with [Three men working on a Ford automobile on assembly line], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Three workers bent over a single Ford automobile on an assembly line make this 1954 print a record of work in progress rather than a finished showpiece. The subject places it at the Ford Motor Company's operations in Dearborn, Michigan, the company's home base and the site of its River Rouge complex, where mass production of the car had been refined since Henry Ford's time. By the mid-1950s, the American auto industry was booming after the postwar years, and assembly lines like this one turned out cars for a growing suburban market. The photograph is worth a close look for the way it shows the hands-on labor that kept those lines moving.

Created / published1954
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1950-1960.
NotesPhotograph from the Ford Motor Company.
SubjectsFord Motor Company--Products--1950-1960. Automobile industry--Michigan--Dearborn--1950-1960. Assembly-line methods--Michigan--Dearborn--1950-1960. Automobiles--American--1950-1960.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,269 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-194338

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