Details
Title Link-Belt type "CF" loader furnished to Baugh & Sons Company, Philadelphia, for handling acid phosphate to power operated buggies. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1927
Date November 1927
Physical Description 1 photograph : platinum ; sheet 8 x 10 in.
Description Product advertisement, probably from a trade portfolio, showing an African American man laborer near a Link-Belt loader inside the Philadelphia warehouse at 20 South Delaware Avenue. An African American man laborer, with debris covering his hat and clothes, stands behind the machine and looks at the viewer. Loader displays a manufacturer's plate for the Philadelphia branch of the company. Link-Belt Engineering Co. was founded by William Dana Erwat, inventor of the link-belt, in 1874.
Notes Title and date typed on recto.
Inscribed in negative: Link-Belt 17061.
Contains four hole punches.
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 Baugh & Sons Company.
Link-Belt Engineering Co.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Loaders (Machines)
Phosphate industry -- Equipment and supplies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African-American laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Delaware Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- south -- 20.
South Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Advertisements -- 1920-1930.
Platinum prints -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Link-Belt [P.9285.12]
Accession number P.9285.12