Photographs of a Car Battery Manufacturing Facility in Los Angeles, circa 1925
Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Collection of photographs of a car battery manufacturing facility in Los Angeles
- Dates:
- circa 1925
- Creators:
- Hartzold, Martin
- Extent:
- 1 unknown (28 photographs)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Collection of photographs of a car battery manufacturing facility in Los Angeles (Collection 652). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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"A batch of snapshot prints documenting the interior of a Los Angeles-area sealed lead acid (SLA) automotive battery manufacturing facility in about 1925. The specific company is not identified, though news reports have the Exide Corp, operating a similar plant in the industrial neighborhood Vernon starting in 1922, the legacy of which endures to this day due to the poisonous materials-intensive process behind battery production leaving significant amounts of lead and arsenic in the local environment. Stark industrial views, highlighted by detailed looks at massive power generation equipment and stirring labor images, provide an uncommon and thorough vernacular tour of an early car battery facility in Los Angeles."
28 black and white silver print photographs. One with an ink notation to verso. Processor's stamp to all versos: "GET YOUR / SNAPPY SNAPSHOTS / FINISHED AT LIBERTY STUDIOS / 620 S. MAIN, L.A. - STRAND BLDG., VENICE / SAVE YOUR COUPONS."
Source: Antiquarian bookseller's description, 2019.
- Acquisition information:
- Purchased from Martin Hartzold, 12 April 2019.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Names:
- Hartzold, Martin
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-11-12 17:02:39 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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- Terms of access:
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- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Collection of photographs of a car battery manufacturing facility in Los Angeles (Collection 652). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library12-077 Center for Health Sciences, Box 951798Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-6940