Camden, New Jersey - Radio. RCA Victor. End of Chassis assembly line - assembling 5-tube radio chassis.
- Date
- 1937-03-04
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 3,000 × 2,126 pixels
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