Automobile editors posing with miniature reproduction of DeSoto factory
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Description
View of automobile editors posing with a miniature model of the DeSoto Motor Corporation factory at the Grand Central Palace. Label on back: "Automobile editors view 'World's most expensive toy.' The world's most expensive toy -- a $25,000 reproduction, in miniature, of the huge DeSoto automobile plant in Detroit -- is on view at the automobile show in Grand Central Palace. This cameo factory but twenty feet long and four feet wide, actually builds little automobiles. Prior to the opening of the show a preview of the 'factory' was held for automobile editors of leading Eastern newspapers." Handwritten on back: "Factories--DeSoto."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na040775
- Subject:
- Automobile factories
- Chrysler Corporation. DeSoto Division
- Miniature objects
- Architectural models
- Automotive journalists
- 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.