Michigan. Detroit. Several thousand employees massed before Ford Motor Company building – Vintage Photo Print
![Michigan. Detroit. Several thousand employees massed before Ford Motor Company building, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/54/548ac0c7580c-L.webp)
(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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Michigan. Detroit. Several thousand employees massed before Ford Motor Company building comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Michigan. Detroit. Several thousand employees massed before Ford Motor Company building
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Several thousand employees crowd in front of the Ford Motor Company building in Detroit, a scene that shows how large the company's workforce had grown by the time the automobile industry made the city famous. The caption card gives no date, but its subject tags point to labor and the auto industry, and mass gatherings like this were common at Detroit's factories during hiring drives, shift changes, and labor disputes in the early twentieth century. The crowd's density and the building's scale make the photograph a useful record of how industrial work was organized in the city.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Wittemann Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Labor & L- classes; Automobile industry; Mich.--D-; Crowds; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,969 × 1,500 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-133046 |
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