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Sheffield Car Co., pattern shop – Antique Wall Art

Sheffield Car Co., pattern shop, [between 1890 and 1910] — historic photograph
Sheffield Car Co., pattern shop, [between 1890 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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A window into the past: Sheffield Car Co., pattern shop, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Sheffield Car Co., pattern shop

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This large glass-plate negative shows the pattern shop of the Sheffield Car Company in Three Rivers, Michigan, a small manufacturing city in the southwestern part of the state. The photograph is of a drawing signed by the Gies Co., so the picture records a design on paper rather than the parts themselves. Pattern shops made the wooden molds from which metal castings were formed, so the room was central to building vehicles by hand before assembly-line production took hold. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this view between about 1890 and 1910, documented American towns and industries across the country during these decades.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 11 x 14 in.
NotesPhotograph of a drawing signed Gies Co.
SubjectsInteriors. Transportation industry.United States--Michigan--Three Rivers.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 765 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77835

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