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Selden Trucks in the ice cream business, Selden Truck Corporation, Rochester, New York

Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Date

1920s

Location Note

Product catalogues: Automotive supplies and vehicles: Automotive

GUSN

GUSN-267501

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Description

Testimonials from ice cream business owners include Mansion House Ice Cream Co., East Cambridge, J.B. Johnson Ice Cream Co., Cambridge and the Boston Ice Cream Company, Roxbury. There is a photograph of an M.F. Libby Ice Cream truck from Somerville on the front of the item. The Baker Motor Sales Company distributes Selden Trucks. Baker is located at 400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
trucks
commercial vehicles
ice cream
transportation
sheets (information artifacts)
advertisements

Physical Description

1 sheet : illustrations ; 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Date of Acquisition

1988

Reference Code

EP001.12.004.001.035

Image Dimensions

11 1/4 x 8 1/2 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Sears House, 1988.

Places

Rochester (Monroe county, New York state)
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Roxbury (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Somerville (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Selden Truck Corporation (Publisher)

Material Type

sheets (information artifacts)
advertisements

Subjects

Massachusetts Avenue (Cambridge, Mass.)

Descriptive Terms

Baker Motor Sales Company

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Product catalogues: Automotive supplies and vehicles: Automotive

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