Shaping gum at the American Chicle Company plant / Underwood & Underwood. – Historic Reproduction
(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 Shaping gum at the American Chicle Company plant / Underwood & Underwood., 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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Shaping gum at the American Chicle Company plant / Underwood & Underwood.
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Workers at the American Chicle Company plant in Long Island City, New York, are shaping gum in this view from about 1923, a stage of production that still depended heavily on manual labor. The company, whose brands included Chiclets and Adams gum, was a leading American gum maker, and its Long Island City works were a major center of the trade. The photograph was made by Underwood & Underwood, a firm known for press and commercial photography, and it documents the factory floor during the decade when chewing gum was becoming a mass-market product.
| Created / published | c1923. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1920-1930. |
| Notes | J261307 U.S. Copyright Office American Chicle Company plant, Long Island City, N.Y. |
| Subjects | American Chicle Group--Facilities--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930. Chewing gum industry--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,275 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179805 |
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