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Automobile editors posing with miniature reproduction of DeSoto factory
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
Date Issued:
1932
Format:
1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Filing Location:
Factories--DeSoto
Rights:
Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.