Photograph
Welsbach Street Lighting Company Loading Dock
| Two men use a slide to load boxes from the loading dock on the second floor of the Welsbach Street Lighting Company onto the bed of one of the company's Model 63 International trucks. Another truck is parked alongside it in the loading dock area. |
| Image ID: | 83412 |
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| Creation Date: | 1925 |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
| City: | Philadelphia |
| County: | |
| State: | Pennsylvania |
| 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 254, Pg.75 |
| Original Dimensions: | 7.5 x 5.5 inches |
| The original typewritten caption reads: "Two Model 63 International motor trucks owned by the Welsbach Street Lighting Company, Philadelphia, Pa., and purchased August and November 1924. This company has sent in an order for six new speed trucks to the Philadelphia branch. It also owns one White motor truck, six Ford trucks equipped with express bodies, and eleven Ford trucks with tanks. The two Model 63 Internationals named above travel about 40 miles a day and from 600 to 700 miles a month. They are utilized to haul to and from freight stations and for making deliveries to lamp lighters. The trucks travel entirely over city streets and the loads are usually quite light, chiefly glass globes and domes. These motor trucks operate about seven miles per gallon of gasoline. The company maintains a book record of gas and oil used by its trucks, but does not have any accurate figures on mileages. The trucks are employed every working day. The Welsbach Street Lighting Company is pleased with International service: in fact, good service is one of the many reasons for using Internationals." |
| Industrial buildings |
| Outdoor photography |
| Delivery of goods |
| Loading docks |
| Trucks |
| Blue collar workers |
| Work clothes |
| Hats |
| Brickwork |
| Men |
| Signs and symbols |
| Cities and towns |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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