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Title
Caravan of early 1900s Packard trucks fully loaded and pulling extra trailers
Creator
Packard Motor Car Company

Institution
Detroit Public Library

Subject
Packard automobile--History

Subject
Trucking--United States--History

Subject
Citrus fruit industry

Item Number
EB01e741

Type
image

Format
jpeg

Description
8x10 black and white sepia-toned Packard Co. file photograph of a caravan of early 1900s Packard trucks fully loaded, pulling extra trailers, sign on side of front truck reads "First Direct Shipment of Sunkist Oranges & Lemons Los Angeles to London," on road next to railroad tracks, two men in front cab, front truck as an American flag attached to radiator. Inscribed on photo back: Packard trucks, post World War I, transporting California "Sunkist" oranges & lemons.

Caravan of early 1900s Packard trucks fully loaded and pulling extra trailers

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