Original 1914 Link-Belt Company Book No. 190, titled Link-Belt Wagon and Truck Loaders, covering equipment designed for handling coal, coke, stone, sand, and similar loose materials from storage.

The title page is clearly dated Copyright 1914 and lists the Link-Belt Company with offices in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Indianapolis, along with numerous sales offices throughout the United States and Canada.

This particular copy was distributed through The Hartford Contractors Supply Co., Incorporated, 306 Pearl Street, Hartford, Connecticut, whose dealer imprint appears prominently on the front cover, rear cover, and inside front wrapper.

The striking red, cream, and green illustrated cover shows a Link-Belt mechanical loader in operation and is especially attractive as early industrial advertising.

The catalog documents early mechanized material-handling equipment used for loading wagons and trucks with bulk materials such as:

• Coal
• Coke
• Stone
• Sand
• Other loose construction and industrial materials

A strong piece of early 20th-century industrial trade literature with crossover appeal to collectors of construction equipment, material handling, conveyors, mining equipment, coal handling, early trucks, industrial engineering, Hartford Connecticut ephemera, and Link-Belt machinery.