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Item Identifier Number
ms152_128
Creation Date
1918
Collection
MS-152: Dayton-Wright Airplane Company Photographs
Description
A crowd of people gather in a train yard to watch as the packaged De Havilland DH-4s built at the Dayton-Wright Airplane Company get loaded into railroad gondola cars, circa 1918. A crane is used to lower the large crates carrying the parts of the airplanes into the gondola cars. Among the people in the crowd are police officers in full uniform. A railroad steam engine is seen in the background attached to the cars with white steam pouring out of the smoke stack. Residential buildings, early automobiles, horse and carts, railroad cars, and other buildings are all visible in the background of the photograph. On the side of one of the loaded cars is printed New York Central and St. Louis.
Publisher Repository
Special Collections and Archives; Wright State University Libraries
Digital Publisher
Digital Services Department; Wright State University Libraries
Document Type
Image
Media Type
8x10 Glass plate negative
Permissions
Special Collections and Archives provides reprints or digital copies of our materials for a fee. For further information please visit their website or call (937) 775-2092.
Date Digital
6-13-2007
Digitization Specification
Epson Expression 10000 XL
Keywords
ms152_128; Packaging; Aircraft industry; Airplane factories; Airplanes--Parts; Construction equipment; World War, 1914-1918; Motor vehicles; Railroad cars; De Havilland DH-4; Wagons; Packing for shipment; Building materials
