Experts testing engines in an automobile plant, Detroit, Mich. – Historic Reproduction
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Experts testing engines in an automobile plant, Detroit, Mich. in remarkable 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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Experts testing engines in an automobile plant, Detroit, Mich.
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Engineers at work in a Detroit automobile plant are the focus of this stereograph, a stereo card from around 1916 that the Keystone View Company copyrighted and sold to be viewed through a stereoscope. Detroit was then the center of the American auto industry, with Ford, Packard, and many smaller firms turning out cars on assembly lines that had transformed manufacturing in just over a decade. Testing engines before they were installed was one of the careful checks that kept those new cars reliable, so the scene shows the factory's emphasis on quality as well as its scale.
| Created / published | c1916 Aug. 26. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | J218064 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 22142. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Michigan--Detroit--1916; Industry--Automobiles--1916; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 794 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-149122 |
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