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Trailer with Gorilla Mural is Transferred to Rail



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Title: Trailer with Gorilla Mural is Transferred to Rail
Description: Color photo of a trailer with a gorilla painted on the back as it is loaded onto a railroad car by a gantry for shipment. The painting was part of one of several murals showing endangered land animals commissioned by Clipper Express founder Jerry G. Chambers. The murals were created under the direction of Ricardo Alonzo, muralist and director of Chicago's West Town Community Youth Art Center, and his assistant Jose Gonzalez. Photo caption reads: "Locking bars on trailer rear became 'cage' for gorilla, member of the cast in land-animal mural. In Clipper Express practice, 227-hp IH six-wheelers pick up vans from shippers, take them to railheads where mobile gantries-like Drott rig in Santa Fe's Chicago yard-hoist loaded trailers aboard for rail transfer to destination. This freight forwarder, despite artwork on some units, isn’t about to scrap the giant-lettered trademark gracing most vans it runs out of 31 terminals."
Image ID: 98820
Creation
Date: 		1975 
Creator
Name: 		International Harvester Company
City, State: Chicago, Illinois
Collection
Name: 		McCormick - International Harvester
Genre: Photographs
Additional
Information: 		Photograph taken for "International Trail" magazine, volume 45, number 2, 1975, page 2.
Subjects: Murals
Painting
Trailers
Delivery of goods
Cargo handling
Freight and freightage
Railroad yards
Wildlife conservation
Outdoor photography
Apes
 

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