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The First factory of the Ford Motor Company, Mack Avenue, Detroit, 1903-1904 – Vintage Wall Art

The First factory of the Ford Motor Company, Mack Avenue, Detroit, 1903-1904, [between 1915 and 1925] — historic photograph
The First factory of the Ford Motor Company, Mack Avenue, Detroit, 1903-1904, [between 1915 and 1925]. Historic photograph from the Detroit 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of The First factory of the Ford Motor Company, Mack Avenue, Detroit, 1903-1904. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The First factory of the Ford Motor Company, Mack Avenue, Detroit, 1903-1904

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Ford's first factory was a rented building on Mack Avenue on Detroit's east side, where the newly incorporated company began building its Model A cars in 1903. The company moved to a larger plant on Piquette Avenue in 1904, so this structure housed its earliest production. The Detroit Publishing Company, which documented the city's growing industries in the early twentieth century, made the original image. This picture is a copy of one of its prints, dated between 1915 and 1925, so it shows the building as it appeared some years after Ford had left it.

Created / published[between 1915 and 1925]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Photographic prints Reproductions.
NotesPhotograph of a photographic print. Detroit Publishing Co. no. K 2657. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsAutomobile industry. Industrial facilities.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 709 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77262

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