Completed product of a great automobile factory ready for delivery, Detroit, Mich. – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Completed product of a great automobile factory ready for delivery, Detroit, Mich.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Completed product of a great automobile factory ready for delivery, Detroit, Mich.
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Finished Cadillac automobiles, presented as ready for delivery, make this card distinct from the wider run of Detroit factory views. Cadillac had been building cars in Detroit since 1902, and General Motors brought it into the corporation in 1909, so by the late 1910s it was part of one of the largest manufacturing operations in the country. The Keystone View Company issued stereographs like this one for home viewers, letting armchair audiences see the industrial age in apparent three dimensions. Detroit's production methods, which Ford had advanced with its moving assembly line from 1913, drew wide interest from photographers and publishers of the period.
| Created / published | c1917. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title from image. Copyright by Keystone View Co. No. 22162. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 285. NOS 5/19/98 |
| Subjects | Cadillac automobile--1910-1920. Automobile industry--Michigan--Detroit--1910-1920. Automobiles--Michigan--Detroit--1910-1920. Assembly-line methods--Michigan--Detroit--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,360 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-138719 |
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