AA-2026-9A95DA
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Two women and a small girl have dressed in their good clothes — skirts, blazers, a handbag — to visit what is plainly an outdoor exhibition of heavy construction machinery, the kind staged in the 1950s when earthmoving equipment had become a symbol of postwar progress serious enough to put on public display. The centrepiece behind them is a massive yellow dump truck with its bed raised and loaded with rock, frozen mid-pour as a demonstration of capacity, because in that decade the sheer size of a machine was the argument. The women smile at the camera with the composed patience of people who have agreed that this outing counts as an occasion. The little girl has not yet decided whether it does.
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Two Women and a Girl at a Heavy-Equipment Exhibition, 1950s. 1953–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-9A95DA. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/two-women-and-a-girl-at-a-heavy-equipment-exhibition-1950s.
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title = {Two Women and a Girl at a Heavy-Equipment Exhibition, 1950s},
year = {1953–1959},
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note = {Accession AA-2026-9A95DA},
url = {https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/two-women-and-a-girl-at-a-heavy-equipment-exhibition-1950s}
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