[Workers on Ford Motor Co. assembly line] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Workers on Ford Motor Co. assembly line] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/79/794e9cdfcd03-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Workers on Ford Motor Co. assembly line]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Workers on Ford Motor Co. assembly line]
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The moving assembly line is the idea most people associate with Ford Motor Company, and this print shows workers on that line in the 1910s, a decade when the company was reshaping how automobiles were built. Ford's Highland Park plant, which opened in 1910, adopted a conveyor-based system in 1913 that brought the work to each worker rather than having workers move around the car, sharply reducing the time needed to assemble a Model T. The record dates the photograph only to "ca. 191-," so its exact year is uncertain, but it reflects the repetitive, fast-paced labor that helped make the Model T affordable to a wide public. Worth noticing is how closely the workers are arranged along the line, a layout that was central to the company's production methods.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [ca. 191-] |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,887 × 1,500 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-121754 |
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