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Garbage Truck Emptying into Incinerator



Garbage Truck Emptying into Incinerator
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Title: Garbage Truck Emptying into Incinerator
Description: A garbage truck is backed up and emptying refuse into what is likely an incinerator. A man is standing at the open driver's door, and another man sits in the cab. The door reads "Philadelphia Department of Streets 755140." The truck is an International Harvester Cargostar model CO-1950.

Image ID: 99191
Creation
Date:
1976 
Creator
Name:
International Harvester Company
City, State: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Collection
Name:
McCormick - International Harvester
Genre: Photographs
Additional
Information:
Photograph taken for "International Trail" magazine, volume 46, number 1, 1976.
Subjects: Cities and towns
Signs and symbols
Hats
Municipal services
Trucks
Outdoor photography
Blue collar workers
Work clothes
Sanitation
Refuse collection vehicles
Industrial buildings
Refuse and refuse disposal
 

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