Mack Model CY, High School Bus, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, December 1940

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Artifact Overview

Founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 1900, Mack Brothers Company relocated to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1905 and adopted the name Mack Trucks in 1922. Sightseeing buses were the company's first products, and school buses were a natural extension of that business. Mack built more than 22,000 school, transit, and intercity buses before ending bus production in 1960.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Date Made

December 1940

Subject Date

December 1940

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

P.1747.V.2412

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Henry Austin Clark, Jr.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8.125 in
Width: 10 in

Mack Model CY, High School Bus, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, December 1940