Making automobile tops, Detroit, Mich. – Historic Print
(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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Making automobile tops, Detroit, Mich. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Making automobile tops, Detroit, Mich.
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The making of automobile tops in Detroit, Michigan, is the subject of this stereograph, a pair of near-identical photographs mounted on a card for viewing through a stereo viewer. Detroit was then the center of the American auto industry, and fabric tops were a common feature on open cars of the period, so this work was a necessary step in finishing a vehicle. Keystone View Company, a firm that produced large numbers of stereo cards for home parlor viewers, copyrighted the image. Its caption dates it to June 22, c. 1917, though that date comes from the caption card and has not been independently verified.
| Created / published | c1917 June 22. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | J224166 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 22159. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 744 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-160341 |
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