Grundy Archive

[Sweet Heart Soap Company truck]

Item

Dublin Core

Identifier

7.8.005

Description

Following the closing of the Merchant Shipyard at Harriman after World War I, this warehouse building (originally number 13) was sold to a soap manufacturing firm called Manhattan Soap Co. (Sweet Heart Soap). Manhattan Soap building later became the site of Dial Soap which operated until December 2000. The Bristol trucking firm Chas. W. Bunting written on the truck.

Date

June 11, 1941

Rights

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Collection

Citation

“[Sweet Heart Soap Company truck],” Grundy Archive, accessed November 21, 2024, https://archive.grundylibrary.org/items/show/1171.