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Title
Female automobile worker applying body striping on Packard assembly line, 1936
Creator
Packard Motor Car Company

Institution
Detroit Public Library

Subject
Packard automobile--History

Subject
Women automobile industry workers

Subject
Assembly-line methods

Item Number
EB01e813

Type
image

Format
jpeg

Description
8x10 black and white Packard Co. file photograph of the 1936 Packard assembly line, close-up of female worker applying striping detail to body. Inscribed on photo back: Packard Motor Car Co., production, applying body striping to a 1936 Packard one-twenty, fourteenth series, model 120 B, 8-cylinder, 120-horsepower, 120-inch wheelbase, 5-person sedan (body type #993), or 5-person touring sedan (body type #992).

Female automobile worker applying body striping on Packard assembly line, 1936

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