B+W & color photo of low temperature starting test for snow blower at United States Testing Co. facility, Hoboken. N.d., ca. 1970s or 1980s.
Entry/Object ID
2013.042.0012
Description
Black-and-white & color photo of low temperature starting test for snow blower at United States Testing Co. facility, 1415 Park Ave., Hoboken. No date, circa 1980s.
8" x 10" prints; two prints - 1 in color, vertical crop; 1 black-and-white, horizontal full image; documentation photograph taken by staff of the Photographic Department, but not so marked. Reverse of both prints is blank.
Donor Bill Willard (a long-time employee of the company) provided primary description of scene.
A staff member in a parka is seen inside a cold temperature chamber with the door open attempting to start a snow blower by pulling the starter cord.
Photo 1 is color print, vertical and cutting off some detail seen in photo 2
Photo 2 is a horizontal black-and-white print of the full scene presumably printed from the original color slide or negative (details such as hand position and cold fog establish that both are the same image printed in two different ways.)
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Engineering
Business & Commerce
Sciences
Interiors
Acquisition
Accession
2013.042
Source or Donor
Willard, Bill
Acquisition Method
Gift
Credit Line
Gift of Bill Willard in tribute to United States Testing Co., Hoboken.
Made/Created
Artist
n/a
Date made
1980 - 1990
Place
Location
Hoboken
Notes
Date: 1980-1990
Dimensions
Height
8 in
Width
10 in
Condition
Overall Condition
Good
General Notes
Note
Notes: United States Testing Co., Inc., 1415 Park Avenue, Hoboken. No longer in Hoboken.
Building was erected in 1918. (Initially occupied by B.F. Goodrich Co.) U.S. Testing signed lease Feb. 1, 1926 for building and grounds; company left Hoboken ca. 2000, for Fairfield, N.J., and building was converted to a parking garage; demolished winter 2013.
U.S. Testing was founded 1880 and located in New York City until it moved to Hoboken which became its new headquarters with several branches in other American cities. It became a subsidiary of SGS (Société Générale de Surveillance, a Geneva based company founded in 1878) in 1963 (SGS U.S. Testing Company Inc. filed as a Foreign for Profit Corporation on Wednesday, October 16, 1963 in the state of New Jersey.) In May 1996, the name was changed to SGS U.S. Testing Company, Inc.
Subsidiaries of U.S. Testing that were located at the Hoboken address:
Nationwide Consumer Testing Institute (established circa 1963.)
Research and Testing Co., Inc.
Qualitest Inc.
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Original or Copy: Original
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2013-06-27
