California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Automobile assembly line, [s.d.]

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Automobile assembly line, [s.d.]

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Photograph of an automobile assembly line, [s.d]. The body of a car hangs over the frame while four men, one on each corner, hold the edges. A man to the left watches while holding a piece of paper. Cars can be seen along the line from the right foreground to the left background. A man stands above the others at the side of a railing in the center. Photoprint reads "[199]".

Asset Metadata

Title Automobile assembly line, [s.d.]

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Subject Engineering (lcsh), Factories (lcsh), General Subjects -- Industry -- General -- Uncataloged (file heading), industrial sites (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960 (subcollection)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20529

Identifier 35751 (accession number), CHS-35751 (call number), CHS-35751 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24359 (legacy record id), chs-m20529 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24359

Unique identifier UC130709

Legacy Identifier CHS-35751.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 11.7 in × 14.9 in at 300dpi
29.8 cm × 38.0 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Description The more than 3,600 unique photographs of this collection document the Chamber's promotional efforts during the city's early years. In addition to stock photographs, there are pictures of the elaborate booths and displays that the Chamber prepared for use at state fairs and international trade shows. The photographic collection contains images showing the growth of important municipal enterprises, such as ground transportation systems, aviation, and shipping. In addition there are about 1,000 lantern slides in this collection -- not yet fully digitized.

Date Created 1860/1960

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Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

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