Workers Assembling Car Bodies at Ford Rouge Plant, 1932

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Artifact Overview

Henry Ford's River Rouge Plant, developed between 1917 and 1928, employed more than 100,000 people at its peak in the 1930s. The Rouge Plant started with raw materials and rolled a completely new vehicle off the line every 49 seconds. In this image, workers on the assembly line at the Rouge Plant join an automobile body with its chassis.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

01 July 1932

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.P.833.57060.9

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 10 in
Width: 8.5 in