(INDUSTRY) World War I-era album entitled "Usine André Citroen de Mars a Octobre 1915 [Factory André Citroen, from March-October 1915]," with 59 large photographs of what appears to be a steel factory, including proto-modernist displays of shell casings, workers operating oversized machinery and furnaces, female laborers in the control section organizing the munitions for shipment, stockpiles of lead, the stamping workshop, a view of indigent rural shacks and plots adjacent to the factory and its grounds, in addition to demolition and expansion of the facilities. Silver prints, 8 1/4x10 7/8 inches (21x27.6 cm.), mounted singly, with a printed title on mount recto. Oblong folio, gilt-lettered morocco, slightly worn; photographs crisp and clean; all edges gilt. 1915
With the outset of World War I, factory efforts to meet the German offensive moved into high gear. Interiors of the factory depict a robust crew of male and female workers amidst its impeccably neat and cavernous facilities.
