Photograph
International TD-40 TracTracTor and Grader
| Road construction workers using an International TD-40 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) and an Adams Model 4 grader owned by the City of Signal Hill. |
| Image ID: | 7223 |
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| Creation Date: | 11 30 1937 |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
| City: | Signal Hill |
| County: | |
| State: | California |
| Collection Name: | International Harvester Company photo albums, circa 1899-1965 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | MCC MSS 7Z, album 452, pg. 135 |
| Original Dimensions: | 8 x 10 inches |
| The original caption reads: "Using fourteen gallons of Diesel oil per eight-hour day this tractor from Tuesday morning till Friday afternoon, with two men ripped up Junipere Avenue, 1/2 mile long, disked, rolled top dire over with a grader (Adams Model 4) mixed with oil and respread ready for traffic. Pulling a Killifer ripper through hard oil top road. The grader has an eight-foot blade. Some of the alleys are rather narrow and often only room enough for the grader and tractor to get through." Oil derricks are in the background. |
| Tractors |
| Construction equipment |
| Oil wells |
| Road construction workers |
| Work clothes |
| Hats |
| Road construction industry |
| Outdoor photography |
| Men |
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