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Conversion. Automobile industry. Floors which once held auto assembly equipment being torn up to prepare for installation of heavy war production equipment. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

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Conversion. Automobile industry. Floors which once held auto assembly equipment being torn up to prepare for installation of heavy war production equipment. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/01/1942

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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer

United States. Office for Emergency Management.

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Detroit (Mich.), 42.33139, -83.04583

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