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English: Crane moving container at Dollar Company wharf, Shanghai, China, ca. 1926   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Title
English: Crane moving container at Dollar Company wharf, Shanghai, China, ca. 1926
Description
English:

This photograph is included in an album that belonged to Ancil F. Haines, Vice President and General Manager of The Admiral Oriental Line, which was taken over by the Dollar Line in 1922. The containers being unloaded at Shanghai are labeled Essex Motor Cars, Made in U.S.A.

Written in white ink beneath photo: Dollar wharf, Shanghai. Close-up of Steam Crane handling Essex automobile.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Containerization; Hoisting machinery; Piers and wharves—China—Shanghai; Shipping--China--Shanghai
Dollar Line, in turn, became American President Lines after a late 1930s bankruptcy.
Depicted place
English: China—Shanghai
Date circa 1926
date QS:P571,+1926-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: 1 photographic print: b&w
Dimensions height: 9.5 in (24.1 cm); width: 12 in (30.4 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,9.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,12U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
4981
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
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Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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A.F. Haines Photograph Album, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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