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Frigidaire refrigerator assemby line, Moraine City, Ohio

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Title	Frigidaire refrigerator assemby line, Moraine City, Ohio
Subject	Industries--Ohio--Dayton Assembly lines Factories--United States General Motors Corporation. Frigidaire Division, Dayton, Ohio
Time Period	1930s 1940s
Place	Moraine (Ohio) Montgomery County (Ohio)
Description	Workers on factory assembly line assembling refrigerator doors, and other parts. The General Motors Corporation Frigidaire Division Plant No. 1, was located at 300 Taylor St., in Dayton, Ohio and together with the assembling plant at Moraine City, south of Dayton, was the world's largest producer of electric refrigeration equipment and was Dayton's biggest single industry. GM spent $1.2 billion to convert the refrigerator plant to a truck-building plant, re-employing hundreds who had lost their jobs when GM sold the Frigidaire division in 1979 and it was closed. The GM plant announced the closure of the plant in 2008.
Creator	Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Date of Original	1930-1940 circa
Collection	Ohio Guide Photographs
Source	State Archives Series 1039 AV
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	SA1039AV_B05F08_040
Image Height	Not Available
Image Width	Not Available
Display File Type	image/jp2
Format	picture
Date created	2009-02-04
Date modified	2011-04-25

Title	SA1039AV_B05F08_040_1
Creator	Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Collection	Ohio Guide Photographs
Source	State Archives Series 1039 AV
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	SA1039AV_B05F08_040_1.tif
Image Height	5187
Image Width	6245
File Size	8978.598 KB
Display File Type	image/jp2
Format	picture
Date created	2009-02-04
Date modified	2009-02-04

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