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[Men assembling auto in a plant] – Historic Print

[Men assembling auto in a plant], c1906. — historic photograph
[Men assembling auto in a plant], c1906.. Historic photograph from the Automobiles 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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Here, several men gather around an automobile still under assembly inside a plant, a scene of hand work that was typical of car building around 1906. Before moving assembly lines spread after 1913, most cars were put together by skilled workers who fitted and adjusted each part by hand, so output depended on individual craft rather than a fixed sequence. The print carries a copyright notice in the name of Waldon Fawcett, an automotive writer and photographer who documented the early trade, though its date and other details come from an unverified caption card.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesCopyright by Waldon Fawcett. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,169 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-135072

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