Alco truck traveling on rural road near DeWitt, Iowa, first transcontinental delivery of merchandise, 1912

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Description

View of Alco truck owned by the Chas. W. Young & Co. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania traveling on rural dirt road near DeWitt, Iowa during the first transcontinental delivery of merchandise in 1912. Handwritten on back: "Bad roads out of DeWitt, Ia. Tours--Philadelphia to San Francisco, 1912. 1st transcontinental delivery of merchandise by motor truck."

Details

Resource ID:: na030827
Subject:: Trucks--Iowa; American Locomotive Company; Commercial products--Transportation; Rural roads--Iowa; Photographic prints
Date:: 1912
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Collection:: Lazarnick Collection
Location:: Tours--Philadelphia to San Francisco, 1912
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.