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Title
Interior of an automobile factory with assembly line, ca.1939
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1939
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of an interior of an automobile factory with assembly line, ca.1939. A line of finished cars stretched from the foreground to the background inside the factory. The first car in the line has a man behind the wheel while two men stand to the right. In the background, three men are visible standing to the left of the cars. The cars glisten by the lights hanging from the ceiling above. According to some sources, it may be the General Motors' South Gate Assembly plant.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m11131
USC-2-1-1-11281 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40647
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11131
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40647.jpg
Subject
Automobile industry and trade
Assembly-line methods
Automobiles
Industry--Automobile
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1939
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
40647 [Accession number]
84-1-580 [Microfiche number]
CHS-40647 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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