B+W photo of load test on extension ladder performed by United States Testing Co., Hoboken, at south side of 14th St.Viaduct near Adams St. N.d., ca. 1970s or 1980s.

Photograph

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Hoboken Historical Museum

U.S. Testing: load test on extension ladder at 14th St. Viaduct

U.S. Testing: load test on extension ladder at 14th St. Viaduct

Name/Title

B+W photo of load test on extension ladder performed by United States Testing Co., Hoboken, at south side of 14th St.Viaduct near Adams St. N.d., ca. 1970s or 1980s.

Entry/Object ID

2013.042.0010

Description

Black-and-white photo of load test on extension ladder performed by United States Testing Co., Hoboken, at south side of 14th Street Viaduct at about Adams Street. No date, circa 1970s or 1980s. 8" x 10" high print; documentation photograph taken by staff of the Photographic Department; company logo and department name at lower right corner. Reverse blank. Donor Bill Willard (a long-time employee of the company) provided primary description of scene. The four unidentified men (wearing coats, cold weather) are posed near the test apparatus with a ladder seen connected to the underside of the viaduct support structure. This outdoor test was only two blocks away from the company's building at 1415 Park Ave. --- Engineering Business & Commerce Sciences Exteriors

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

1970 - 1990

Place

Location

Hoboken

Notes

Date: 1970-1990

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. ==== Original or Copy: Original Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2013-06-27