Building the body of an automobile, Detroit, Mich. – Vintage Photo Print
(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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Step back in time with Building the body of an automobile, Detroit, Mich., a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Building the body of an automobile, Detroit, Mich.
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Few places in the 1910s showed industrial change as clearly as Detroit's automobile plants, and this stereograph records one step in that work: the building of a car's body. Keystone View Company, a Meadville, Pennsylvania firm, issued cards like this for viewing through a stereoscope, so the paired images gave the factory floor a sense of depth and presence. By about 1916, Detroit was the center of American automobile manufacturing, with the Model T and assembly-line methods drawing workers and new companies to the city. The card is a useful window onto how the public was taught to see mass production as both novel and impressive.
| Created / published | Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, manufacturers and publishers, c1916. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | J218093 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 22410. |
| Subjects | Automobile industry--Michigan--Detroit--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,287 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-183739 |
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