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[Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Mich.] – Historic Print

[Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1910 and 1920]. 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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Step back in time with [Ford Motor Company, 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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This glass negative records the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, one of the industrial sites that drew the Detroit Publishing Company's cameras in the decade before 1920. The city was then becoming the center of American automobile manufacturing, and Ford's expanding operations were reshaping its factories, workforce, and streets. The Detroit Publishing Company produced large-format views of American cities and landscapes, and its 8 x 10 inch negatives captured the scale of industrial work in this period. Its catalog numbers and the 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado show how the collection traveled before reaching the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 8200" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072249. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsAutomobile industry. Industrial facilities.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 777 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-73338

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