White 5-ton truck, owned by the American Shipbuilding Corp. – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with White 5-ton truck, owned by the American Shipbuilding Corp., a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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White 5-ton truck, owned by the American Shipbuilding Corp.
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A white five-ton truck owned by the American Shipbuilding Corporation is the subject of this 1918 view, taken by the Cleveland firm Hoffman & Lane. The company was a major shipbuilder with its roots in Cleveland, and in the last years of the First World War, heavy trucks like this one were increasingly used to move steel, machinery and other materials around industrial works. The caption card's tracings point to construction and trucks as the main subjects, so the picture reads best as a record of wartime industrial transport. The date and attribution come from older catalog data that has not been independently verified.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photo by Hoffman & Lane, Cleveland. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Va.--A-; Construction; Trucks; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,220 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-131369 |
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