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Title: 

Collection Truck Backview, 1937

Keywords: vehicle, collection truck;cleaning;Trash and Transformation
Issue Date: 4-Oct-2007
Abstract: A photograph of a Department of Sanitation truck from 1937
Description: A photograph of the back view of a collection truck with the phrase "We Clean the Streets Please Co-operate" stenciled on the back of the truck. The license plate on the collection truck reads "400-023 NY 37" with the letters "COM" positioned next to the license plate numbers running downward. The truck is sitting on an empty city street surrounded by abandoned buildings. There is a "For Sale or Lease" sign hanging from the building across the street from the truck. On the back of the photograph, in the bottom left corner. are the numbers 810-101. There is also a pink stickey attached to the back of the photograph reading "Collection truck backview 1937."
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2451/23596
Appears in Collections:NYU-New York Department of Sanitation Museum Project

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