Mounting automobile body on chassis, Detroit, Mich. – Antique Wall Art
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Mounting automobile body on chassis, Detroit, Mich. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Mounting automobile body on chassis, Detroit, Mich.
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A stereograph card like this one captures a moment on a Detroit assembly line during the 1910s, when the city was becoming the center of American automobile manufacturing. The scene shows workers mounting a car body onto its chassis, the step where a rolling frame and a finished shell were joined into a complete vehicle. Keystone View Company, based in Meadville, Pennsylvania, produced stereo cards like this for home viewers who looked through a hand stereoscope to see depth in the image. Pictures of factory work were popular with these audiences, who were eager to see how the new machines were built.
| Created / published | Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1917. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | J224179 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 22161. |
| Subjects | Automobile industry--Michigan--Detroit--1910-1920. Automobiles--Michigan--Detroit--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,311 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-183737 |
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