Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections
The Human Factor
Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library
Auto worker creates stripe guns
ca. 1936 • De Soto • Photographer unknown
Frank Ryan, veteran worker in the De Soto body plant, has created all of the stripe guns used in painting stripes on Chrysler-made cars. He has developed at least 25 different types of “guns,” including models that paint three different colored stripes at the same time.
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- Auto worker creates stripe guns, ca. 1936
- De Soto
- Photographer unknown
- Gelatin Silver Print, 8 × 10 inches
- Automobile Industry Photograph Collection, Mss: 534 A939 1931-1944 (D-71-N)