Image / Studebaker assembly line, Loma Vista Avenue, Los Angeles. 1936

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Title: Studebaker assembly line, Loma Vista Avenue, Los Angeles. 1936
Creator: Dick Whittington Studios
Contributor: Union Oil (client)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Workers lower an engine into an automobile frame at the Studebaker assembly plant on Loma Vista in Los Angeles. The engine is suspended from an overhead pulley which one of the men is controlling. The frame of the vehicle is on an assembly line with other vehicle frames in front of and behind it.
Location from The dream endures: California enters the 1940s, Kevin Starr, p. 182.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Extent: 1 negative. 5 x 7 in (13 x 17 cm)
Identifier: photCL Whitt 2593
162962
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/3947
Subject: Automobiles--California--Photographs
Studebaker automobile
Assembly-line methods
Employees--California--Photographs
Negatives. (aat)
Prints (visual works) (aat)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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