Photograph
Trailer with Gorilla Mural is Transferred to Rail
| 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 |
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| Creation Date: | 1975 |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
| City: | Chicago |
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| State: | Illinois |
| Collection Name: | International Harvester Company corporate archives central file (documented series), 1819-1998 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, original |
| Original Format Number: | MCC MSS 6Z, box 137, folder 11233 |
| Original Dimensions: | 35mm |
| Photograph taken for "International Trail" magazine, volume 45, number 2, 1975, page 2. |
| Apes |
| Wildlife conservation |
| Murals |
| Painting |
| Outdoor photography |
| Delivery of goods |
| Cargo handling |
| Freight and freightage |
| Railroad yards |
| Trailers |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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