Caterpillar Tractor Company Photograph Collection, 1927-1932

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Caterpillar Tractor Company Photograph Collection, 1927-1932

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/bak00091/catalog

This collection includes black and white photographic prints that document the history of the Caterpillar Tractor Company and provide information about methods of farming, road building and construction in use in the early part of the twentieth century.

5 linear ft. (6 boxes)

Baker Library, Harvard Business School

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SNAC Resource ID: 6382590

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Holt Manufacturing Company

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Caterpillar Tractor Company

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The Caterpillar Tractor Company was formed in 1925 by the merger of the Holt Manufacturing Company of Stockton, California, and Peoria, Illinois, and the C.L. Best Tractor Company of San Leandro, California. In the years before World War I, Benjamin Holt invented the "caterpillar tractor," which moved on heavy, belted-metal tracks rather than wheels. The tracks prevented the vehicle from sinking in the mud. The Caterpillar Tractor Company mounted extensive marketing campaigns during the late 192...

Holt, Benjamin, 1849-1920

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C. L. Best Tractor Company

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Davenport, D. H. (Donald Hills), 1896-

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