AA-2026-9FA89D
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Two women and a child stand in front of a Euclid off-highway dump truck at an outdoor industrial exhibition, the truck painted trade-show yellow and lettered with the Euclid name — a General Motors division at the time, as the partially visible banner in the background confirms. The truck's rear tires stand nearly as tall as the women, which is the point: Euclid brought machines like this to public exhibitions precisely because scale was the argument, and scale required an audience. The women are dressed for an outing, not a construction site, which was perfectly normal, because in the 1950s a trade exposition was considered a reasonable destination for a family Saturday. Someone has asked them to stand there so the photograph has a sense of proportion, and they have obliged in the composed, patient manner of people who have been asked to stand in front of things before. The truck would go on to move millions of tons of earth over the following decades; the family went home and probably talked about something else entirely.
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Family Portrait with Euclid Dumper, GM Division Exhibit, 1950s. 1953–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-9FA89D. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/family-portrait-with-euclid-dumper-gm-division-exhibit-1950s.
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title = {Family Portrait with Euclid Dumper, GM Division Exhibit, 1950s},
year = {1953–1959},
howpublished = {Archive \& Atlas, Historical Image Library},
note = {Accession AA-2026-9FA89D},
url = {https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/family-portrait-with-euclid-dumper-gm-division-exhibit-1950s}
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