Finishing (sand-papering) automobile wheels, Detroit, Mich. – 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 Finishing (sand-papering) automobile wheels, Detroit, Mich., a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Finishing (sand-papering) automobile wheels, Detroit, Mich.
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Workers at a Detroit plant are shown sanding automobile wheels by hand, a finishing step that was done in the middle of a long assembly process. The stereograph was made around June 22, 1917, by the Keystone View Company, a firm known for stereo cards sold to households and schools. By then Detroit was the center of the American auto industry, and wheels were often built up in layers of paint or varnish, with each coat smoothed before the next went on. The scene shows how much skilled, labor-intensive handwork went into cars that were being turned out in growing numbers.
| Created / published | c1917 June 22. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | J224177 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. No. 22148. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ind.--Auto.; Geogr.; Ph. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 792 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-149114 |
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