Open Hearth Building at Ford Rouge Plant, 1927
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Artifact Overview
A worker shovels debris in the Ford Rouge Plant's open-hearth building, where ten monstrous furnaces worked day and night to produce steel for plant operations. Suspended behind him is the giant hook of a 125-ton crane. Its job was to transport massive ladles (one is partially visible, left) of molten metal through the steelmaking process.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
12 July 1929
Subject Date
1927
Place of Creation
Creator Notes
Originally photographed by Charles Sheeler in 1927 for Ford Motor Company. Copied by Ford Motor Company in 1929.
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
64.167.189.P.6585
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 in
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