Photograph
Manufacturing Automobile Frames
| Workers at the A.O. Smith Corporation in Milwaukee assembling frames for Cadillac automobiles. In 1902 Arthur O. Smith, son of the company's founder, produced the first pressed steel automobile frame in the nation. In 1920 the company constructed an automobile frame plant, the only such plant of its kind, which was capable of producing 10,000 auto frames per day. |
| Image ID: | 4153 |
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| Creation Date: | 1954 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
| City: | Milwaukee |
| County: | Milwaukee |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | A.O. Smith Corporation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, photographs, 1954-1955 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | PH 364 |
| Original Dimensions: | 8 x 10 |
| Work clothes |
| Factories |
| Automobile industry and trade |
| Blue collar workers |
| Transportation |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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