Tractors for civilian use moving off assembly line at Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan, August 1945

Description: 

Photograph. Workers putting the final touches on tractors moving off assembly line. Official Caption: "Rome 8/29/45---Tractors for civilian use move off assembly line in U.S. Tractors for civilian use move off the assembly line at the Highland Park Plant of the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, in the Midwestern U.S. state of Michigan, on Aug. 17, 1945, three days after President Truman announced Japan's unconditional surrender. Small tanks and bomber parts were made at the plant during the war. On Aug. 18 President Truman ordered full mobilization of all government resources for promotion of swift and orderly reconversion of rational economy from war to peacetime footing. Photo serviced through U. S. I. S. Rome 43536-PPA. A.P. Photo approved by appropriate military authority (D List out).Highland Park Plant of Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan. 17 August 1945

Image Information

Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.625
Date: 
08/17/1945
Location: 
Hometown: 
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Theater of Service: 
Unit: 
Campaign / Event: 
Home Front production (1942-45)
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Topical Subjects: 
Assembly-line methods--Michigan
Tractors--Australian--Michigan
Collection Level: 
Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
Geography: 
Detroit
Latitude: 
42.317
Longitude: 
-83.033
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Assembly-line methods--Michigan
Tractors--Australian--Michigan