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[Factory workers on assembly line for bearings] – Antique Wall Art

[Factory workers on assembly line for bearings], 1924 April 29. — historic photograph
[Factory workers on assembly line for bearings], 1924 April 29.. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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Workers stand along a line of bearing production in this 1924 glass negative, one of several Detroit Publishing Company views that the cataloger suspects were made for the Ford Motor Company. The catalog ties it to two sets of companion negatives in the same numbering run, which suggests a planned series documenting the plant rather than a single snapshot. The Detroit Publishing Company, known for its color and black-and-white views of cities, industry and railroads, sold such scenes to businesses and publishers in the early twentieth century. Assembly-line work of this kind shows how mass production organized labor into repeated, divided tasks.

Created / published1924 April 29.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Photographic prints Reproductions.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger; title on jacket: Bearings. Possibly made for Ford Motor Company automobile industry; cf. negatives D420-2851 to D420-2882 and D420-3041 to D420-3084. Detroit Publishing Co. nos. 37426, K 3044. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 683 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77354

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