Finding Aid for the Collection of Photographs of a Car Battery Manufacturing Facility in Los Angeles Biomed.0652
Finding aid prepared by Jasmine Larkin, 2020.
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Online finding aid last updated 2020 November 12.
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Title: Collection of photographs of a car battery manufacturing facility in Los Angeles
source:
Hartzold, Martin
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0652
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(28 photographs)
Date: circa 1925
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Martin Hartzold, 12 April 2019.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
8865731
[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.
"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.
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Hartzold, Martin