Caterpillar Tractor Co. Photoprints
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
label: Creator
content: Holling, W. J.
label: Creator
content: Chandler, Don
label: Creator
content: Caterpillar Tractor Co. (Peoria, Ill.).
label: Creator
content: Broden
label: Names
content: Caterpillar Tractor Co. (Peoria, Ill.).
place: label: Place
content: Texas -- 1940-50
label: Place
content: Illinois -- photographs -- 1948-1949
label: Place
content: Georgia -- 1940-1950
label: Place
content: California -- 1940-1950
topic: label: Topic
content: Road construction -- Photographs -- 1940-1950
label: Topic
content: Labor and laboring classes -- Photographs
label: Topic
content: Factories -- 1940-1950
label: Topic
content: Earthmoving machinery -- Photographs -- 1940-1950
label: Topic
content: Construction workers
label: Topic
content: Construction industry -- Photographs -- 1940-1950
label: Topic
content: Cemeteries -- Construction -- 1940-1950
label: Topic
content: Tractors -- Photographs -- 1940-1950
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Source unknown, but possibly originally in Warshaw Collection of Business Americana.
creator: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
label: Creator
content: Holling, W. J.
label: Creator
content: Chandler, Don
label: Creator
content: Caterpillar Tractor Co. (Peoria, Ill.).
label: Creator
content: Broden
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Photographs probably commissioned by Caterpillar for public relations or advertising use.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 11 Copy prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1948-1949.
container: label: Container
content: Box 1 (Shared Box), Folder 1
custodhist: label: Ownership and Custodial History
content: Items found in collection, in Archives Center vault; possibly originally part of Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, or collected subsequently by curator John Hoffman.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0146
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Aerial photographs
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by NMAH Staff, undated
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin -- 1940-1950
label: Genre/Form
content: Aerial Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: 11 photoprints of Caterpillar Tractor Co. buildings and products: three photographs of company buildings, including two aerial views, and eight photographs of tractors, including views of machines at work in various locations. Tractors with various models of scrapers are shown in San Antonio, Texas; Whittier, California; and Colquitt County, Georgia. Locations of five tractor views unidentified: one shows two stationary tractors, the others show machines at work in roadbuilding and cemetery construction.