Title: Street Cleaning
Photographer: Gazette Photo
Subject Headings: Persons, Street Cleaning, Transportation - Roads
Condition: Good
Description: Scavenger unit in operation on Shelden Ave. The mechanism is a big vacuum cleaner which sucks up dirt out of catch basins. Here it is demonstrating it possibilities. Similar work was done in Hancock. Both councils have been greatly interested, and Houghton, or Hancock may purchase such a unit. The machine can clean the streets as well as the basins. The machine, distributed by the Paynter Corp. of Green Bay, will remain in the area for another week. [Three men guide a gigantic hose down a manhole while a policeman stands by.]
Source of Description: Daily Mining Gazette Article, October 17, 1958 [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Robert Skuggen
Date of Photo: Friday October 17 1958
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 7.5 cm x 15.1 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS051-016-003-015
Collection Name: Daily Mining Gazette Photograph Collection
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