Assembly Line at Beech Aircraft Plant, Wichita, Kansas, 1946
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Photographic print
Date Made
1946
Subject Date
1946
Creators
Creator Notes
Photographed by Victor Keppler for Fuller Houses, Inc.
Collection Title
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
2008.115.6
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Stamping (Marking)
Typewriting
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 10 in
Width: 8.125 in
Inscriptions
Typewritten press release affixed to back: #124 PHOTO SHOWS: Assembly line at Beech Aircraft Corp. plant, Wichita, Kansas, / where 200 Fuller Houses per day will be built side-by-side with planes starting / early in 1947. Mass production tooling for the house, which uses the same materials, / machinery and labor skills as planes, is scheduled to begin this summer. Idle / aircraft plants in Wichita alone have capacity to mass produce 250,000 Fuller / Houses per year; aircraft facilities throughout the nation, 90% idle as result / of war contract terminations, could turn out a million a year. / (Photo Credit: Victor Keppler) Stamped in black ink on back: DO NOT RELEASE / BEFORE 6:00 P.M. E.S.T. / THURSDAY MARCH 32, 1946 / FULLER HOUSES, INC. / WICHITA 2, KANSAS / Washington: DISTRICT 4959 / NEW YORK: REGENT 4-1044
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