Details
Title Type "C" loader with swiveling belt conveyor storing coal at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1920
Date [ca. 1920]
Physical Description 1 photograph : cyanotype ; sheet 8 x 10 in.
Description a Product advertisement, probably from a trade portfolio, showing the Link-Belt coal loader in action behind a small ivy covered building on the campus. In the foreground are large piles of coal. In the center, a coal shooting loader is set up and an African American man, attired in a brimmed hat, stands and oversees the operation. A laborer shovels coal from the back of a dump truck. Link-Belt Engineering Co. was founded by William Dana Ewart, inventor of the link-belt, in 1874.
Notes Title from typed note on verso.
Date inferred from photographic medium and content.
Inscribed in negative: 9249.
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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject Link-Belt Engineering Co.
University of Pennsylvania.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Coal -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Coal trade -- Equipment and supplies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Digging -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Loaders (Machines)
African American laborers.
Genre Cyanotypes -- 1910-1920.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Link-Belt [P.9285.21]
Accession number P.9285.21