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Link-Belt "D" loader handling coal from R.R. car to wagon in yard of Hamilton Coal Co., Wilmington, Del. [graphic].
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Title
Link-Belt "D" loader handling coal from R.R. car to wagon in yard of Hamilton Coal Co., Wilmington, Del. [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1920
Date
[ca. 1920]
Physical Description
1 photograph : cyanotype ; sheet 8 x 10 in.
Description
Product advertisement, probably from a trade portfolio, showing a Link-Belt loader removing coal from beneath a Philadelphia & Reading Railway car to a horse-drawn wagon. A laborer shovels the coal on the wagon bed. An African American laborer, attired in a brimmed hat, stands near the loader and looks at the viewer. Loader displays a manufacturer's plate labeled "Made by Link-Belt Company, Phila. Chicago New York." Link-Belt Engineering Co. was founded by William Dana Ewart, inventor of the link-belt, in 1874.
Notes
Title typed on recto.
Inscribed in negative: 8945.
Contains four hole punches.
Contains pencil marking on recto.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Purchase 1990.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject
Hamilton Coal Co.
Link-Belt Engineering Co.
Reading Company.
African American men -- Delaware -- Wilmington.
Carts & wagons -- Delaware -- Wilmington.
Coal trade -- Equipment and supplies -- Delaware -- Wilmington.
Digging -- Delaware -- Wilmington.
Laborers -- Delaware -- Wilmington.
Loaders (Machines)
Railroad freight cars -- Delaware -- Wilmington.
African-American laborers -- Delaware -- Wilmington.
Genre
Advertisements -- 1910-1920.
Cyanotypes -- 1910-1920.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Link-Belt [P.9285.19]
Accession number
P.9285.19
In Collections
African American History Photographs
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