This photograph depicts a reworking shop in power and to suggest the intensity of its the 1920s and 1930s where roughly made productivity. The length of the room is parts were finished on bar machines. The emphasized by the angle of the lens and parts underwent a wide variety of operations: marked by the succession of workstations, carving, drilling, milling (to make slits or further accentuating the room’s length. The plates), threading, and more. Depending on ropes and lamp bases form vertical lines and its intended use, a part could be reworked help saturate the image in places, creating up to 10 or 15 times! The reworking shop an effect of accumulation, abundance, even employed mostly women, who were given movement. In addition, the angle is sufficiently tasks requiring great precision, and featured wide enough that the photo captures the different types of machines, all connected by large side bay windows and freight elevator, a rope and pulley to a single drive shaft demonstrating the facility’s modernity and attached to the ceiling and powered by a the importance placed on the comfort of the motor. workers, who each received their own light The head-on angle of the photo reveals a clear source. intention: to illustrate the company’s technical 75