Photo Set: The Early Years of Trucking

Trucking and transportation has changed a lot over the years. This week, we reported on Amazon’s plans to deliver packages via drones, and much has been in the news this year about drivers-less vehicles.  Thinking about the future has reflecting on the past and how far we’ve come.

Flickr Commons has a library of images of trucking and transportation throughout the years.  The goal of Flickr Commons is to The “share hidden treasures from the world’s public photography archives.”

Original Caption: Posted Highway Sign Along Interstate #5 Explains Lack of Highway Lighting Is Due to Energy Conservation 11/1973

U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-12969

Photographer: Falconer, David

Subjects:
Environmental Protection Agency
Project DOCUMERICA

Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=555421

Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.

Original Collection: Gerald W. Williams Collection, 1855-2007

Photo Date: 1925

Item Number: WilliamsG: ES_oakridge

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Delano, Jack,, photographer.

Truck trailers line up at a freight house to load and unload goods from the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, Chicago, Ill.

1942 Dec.

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Proviso Yards.
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Chicago and North Western Railway Company
World War, 1939-1945
Shipping
Trucks
Railroad shops & yards
United States–Illinois–Melrose Park

Format: Transparencies–Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection 12002-1 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Original Collection: Food Science and Technology Dept. Photographic Collection

Item Number: P142:482

Image Description: Loaded truck for Farmers and Merchants Motor Transport, Inc., Corvallis, 1925 (Shown on downtown Corvallis street with driver).

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Digital ID: 480977. Model H Reliance – GMC as improved in 191-? [Oxford Storage Co.].. [191-]

Source: Photographs of General Motors and Chrysler car and truck models, 1902 – 1938. / General Motors Truck Company, Pontiac, Michigan, 1936, photographs – specifications (more info)

Repository: The New York Public Library. Science, Industry and Business Library. General Collection Division.

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Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?480977

Digital ID: 480998. [Model T 16 – L 8 in front of Stuart Oxygen Co. loading gas cylinders.]

Source: Photographs of General Motors and Chrysler car and truck models, 1902 – 1938. / General Motors Truck Company, Pontiac, Michigan, 1936, photographs – specifications (more info)

Repository: The New York Public Library. Science, Industry and Business Library. General Collection Division.

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Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?480998

Digital ID: 481013. [Model T 16 B used for shipping potatoes for Zell Potato Co..]

Source: Photographs of General Motors and Chrysler car and truck models, 1902 – 1938. / General Motors Truck Company, Pontiac, Michigan, 1936, photographs – specifications (more info)

Repository: The New York Public Library. Science, Industry and Business Library. General Collection Division.

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Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?481013

Catalog #: 04_02886
Album: 33
Description: Towing the wingless fuselage of the Spirit. Lindbergh in front seat of truck.
Album Name: “”Spirit”” Lindbergh Rohr Collection
Page Number: 35
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive

Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer.

Truck driver at TVA’s Douglas Dam, Tennessee

1942 June

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Tennessee Valley Authority
World War, 1939-1945
Dams
Construction industry
Trucks
United States–Tennessee

Format: Transparencies–Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection 12002-36 (DLC) 93845501

Digital ID: 482586. Abbott, Berenice — Photographer. June 18, 1936

Notes: Code: II.A.2. Heavy trucks backed-up to Pennsylvania Railroad freight station.

Source: Changing New York / Berenice Abbott. (more info)

Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.

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Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?482586

Digital ID: 481012

Source: Photographs of General Motors and Chrysler car and truck models, 1902 – 1938. / General Motors Truck Company, Pontiac, Michigan, 1936, photographs – specifications (more info)

Repository: The New York Public Library. Science, Industry and Business Library. General Collection Division.

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Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?481012

Digital ID: 481017

Source: Photographs of General Motors and Chrysler car and truck models, 1902 – 1938. / General Motors Truck Company, Pontiac, Michigan, 1936, photographs – specifications (more info)

Repository: The New York Public Library. Science, Industry and Business Library. General Collection Division.

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Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?481017

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