277 •(HAHN MOTORS--INDUSTRY AND FACTORY)
Album with 31 photographs depicting the Hahn Motors Inc., a leading manufacturer of fire apparatuses and motorized trucks in Hamburg, Pennsylvania.
The album opens with wide street views of three Hahn Motor plants communicating a grand sense of scale for a family-owned company. Following are detailed interior shots of the factories, illustrating the truck building process and the production materials used. Finally, the album closes with staged photographs of various finished models; some shots have catalogue numbers, details of business logos on the vehicles, and many describe the truck model type. Silver prints, one image measuring 3½x9½ inches (8.9x24.1 cm.), the rest 7¼x9½ inches (19x24.1cm.), one sheet with a handwritten caption and a few with typed captions on verso. Black leatherette with the gilt-stamped company name; triple-bolt binding. 1920s

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