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- Dan Gurney Driving Lotus 18 Climax in Louisiana Formula Libre 200 Mile Race (Pipeline 200), March-April 1962 -
- 31 March 1962 - 01 April 1962
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Dan Gurney Driving Lotus 18 Climax in Louisiana Formula Libre 200 Mile Race (Pipeline 200), March-April 1962
- Dan Gurney in Lotus 18 Climax at Louisiana Formula Libre 200 Mile Race (Pipeline 200), March-April 1962 -
- 31 March 1962 - 01 April 1962
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Dan Gurney in Lotus 18 Climax at Louisiana Formula Libre 200 Mile Race (Pipeline 200), March-April 1962
- Roger Penske and Lloyd Ruby in Louisiana Formula Libre 200 Mile Race (Pipeline 200), March-April 1962 -
- 31 March 1962 - 01 April 1962
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Roger Penske and Lloyd Ruby in Louisiana Formula Libre 200 Mile Race (Pipeline 200), March-April 1962
- Unloading Bananas from Steamer, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1900-1910 - Bananas arrived on grocery store shelves via a transportation system controlled by competing fruit companies and their government allies. Refrigerated railcars moved the crop from Central American plantations to ships bound for U.S. ports in the Gulf of Mexico. This photograph shows dockworkers in New Orleans, Louisiana, transferring bunches of bananas -- each weighing around 86 pounds -- to a refrigerated railcar for transport to market.
- 1900-1910
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Unloading Bananas from Steamer, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1900-1910
Bananas arrived on grocery store shelves via a transportation system controlled by competing fruit companies and their government allies. Refrigerated railcars moved the crop from Central American plantations to ships bound for U.S. ports in the Gulf of Mexico. This photograph shows dockworkers in New Orleans, Louisiana, transferring bunches of bananas -- each weighing around 86 pounds -- to a refrigerated railcar for transport to market.
- "Daily Electric Letter" Newspaper for December 8, 1877, Vol. 1, No. 69, Made with the Edison Electric Pen and Duplicating Press -
- December 08, 1877
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"Daily Electric Letter" Newspaper for December 8, 1877, Vol. 1, No. 69, Made with the Edison Electric Pen and Duplicating Press
- Ford Motor Company--Plant Construction--New Orleans, Louisiana--1922-1923--Item11 - Starting in the early 1910s, Ford Motor Company opened domestic assembly plants throughout the United States. Assembling automobiles closer to regional markets reduced shipping costs -- parts were cheaper to ship than completed automobiles. Albert Kahn, America's foremost industrial architect, designed Ford's modern, one-story New Orleans Assembly plant. The plant, which opened in 1923, supplied automobiles to three states until it closed in 1933.
- December 01, 1922
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Ford Motor Company--Plant Construction--New Orleans, Louisiana--1922-1923--Item11
Starting in the early 1910s, Ford Motor Company opened domestic assembly plants throughout the United States. Assembling automobiles closer to regional markets reduced shipping costs -- parts were cheaper to ship than completed automobiles. Albert Kahn, America's foremost industrial architect, designed Ford's modern, one-story New Orleans Assembly plant. The plant, which opened in 1923, supplied automobiles to three states until it closed in 1933.
- Mack Model CY, High School Bus, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, December 1940 - 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.
- December 01, 1940
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Mack Model CY, High School Bus, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, December 1940
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.
- Mack Truck Used by Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana, circa 1920 - Founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 1900, Mack Brothers Company relocated to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1905 and adopted the name Mack Trucks in 1922. Mack-built tank trucks like this had separate compartments for gasoline, diesel fuel, lubricants, and other oil and petroleum products. The delivery trucks transported these products from distributors to gas stations.
- circa 1920
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Mack Truck Used by Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana, circa 1920
Founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 1900, Mack Brothers Company relocated to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1905 and adopted the name Mack Trucks in 1922. Mack-built tank trucks like this had separate compartments for gasoline, diesel fuel, lubricants, and other oil and petroleum products. The delivery trucks transported these products from distributors to gas stations.
- French Market, New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1906 -
- circa 1906
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French Market, New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1906
- Woman with Basket of Fruit, New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1905 -
- circa 1905
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Woman with Basket of Fruit, New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1905