Workers constructing Dodge Chicago plant
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Description
View of workers constructing the Dodge Chicago plant. Label on back: "World's largest factory building. One of fifteen in Chrysler Corporation's new Dodge Chicago plant is being built from both ends at the same time. What appears to be another plant in the background is really the other end of the one in the foreground. Its roof will cover more than fifty city blocks of land and a small section of 22 acres inside will be completely air conditioned. Most the inside will be only fresh-air ventilated. (DC-36). Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan." Handwritten on back: "ACWP - Plants construction."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na051789
- Subject:
- Automobile factories--Illinois--Chicago--Design and construction
- Construction workers--Illinois--Chicago
- Chrysler Corporation. Dodge Division
- Automotive Council for War Production--Archives
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1942-1945
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- MS84/Automotive Council for War Production, 87:20
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.