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Title: N.Y. rubbish-garbage trucks
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Shown is one of 900 New York rubbish-garbage trucks. This "compactor" truck, with a rear "escalator," pressures garbage and rubbish together for high efficiency. Photo dated: June 16, 1955.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00060207
Herald Examiner Collection
HE Box 1423.
CARL0000064179
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24417
Subject: Refuse collection
Refuse collection vehicles
Refuse collectors
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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