Miniature reproduction of DeSoto factory
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Description
Artist's depiction of a miniature model of the DeSoto Motor Corporation factory, with inset portrait of race car driver Peter De Paolo. Printed on front: "Miniature automobile factory starts nation-wide tour. The $20,000 miniature reproduction of the great DeSoto factory in Detroit last week started on a coast-to-coast tour. The model will visit some two hundred leading cities during the course of the six months it will spend touring America. In the inset is Peter De Paolo, speedway champion who will describe the operation of this fascinating little miniature at the various places it will be shown." Handwritten on back: "Factories--DeSoto."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na040772
- Subject:
- Automobile factories
- Chrysler Corporation. DeSoto Division
- Miniature objects
- Architectural models
- Automobile racing drivers
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1932
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- Factories--DeSoto
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.