Assembling room, chassis and motors, auto plant, Detroit, Mich. – Vintage Wall Art
(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 Assembling room, chassis and motors, auto plant, Detroit, Mich.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Assembling room, chassis and motors, auto plant, Detroit, Mich.
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Few cities were as closely tied to American manufacturing as Detroit, and this stereograph shows an assembly room where chassis and motors were brought together around 1929. Keystone, the company that issued the card, sold stereo views like this one in large numbers, and when viewed through a stereoscope the paired images gave the factory floor a sense of depth that a flat print could not. By the late 1920s, Detroit automakers had refined the moving assembly line, so scenes like this one document the methods that made the city the center of the industry.
| Created / published | c1929. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by Keystone. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Automobiles; Industry & manufacture--Automobiles; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,422 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-126866 |
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