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Swift & Company's Meat Packing House, Chicago, Illinois, "Splitting Backbones and Final Inspection of Hogs," 1910-1915
Keystone View Company1915
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
At this meat packing operation, a conveyor moved hog carcasses past meat cutters, who then removed various pieces of the animal. To keep Model T production up with demand, Ford engineers borrowed ideas from other industries. Sometime in 1913 they realized that the "disassembly line" principle employed in slaughterhouses could be adapted to building automobiles -- on a moving assembly line.
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- Title: Swift & Company's Meat Packing House, Chicago, Illinois, "Splitting Backbones and Final Inspection of Hogs," 1910-1915
- Creator: Keystone View Company
- Date: 1910/1915
- Date Created: 1915
- Location: United States, Pennsylvania, Meadville, United States, Illinois, Chicago
- Subject Keywords: Swift & Company, Food industry and trade, Mass production, Meat industry and trade, Packing plants, Workers, Photographic prints, Photographs, Stereographs
- Type: Photographs
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: Digital Collections
- Object Name: Stereograph
- Object ID: 92.0.173.2
- Image ID: THF32081
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
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