1930 Linn Trailer promotional photograph

Photo and comments courtesy of Rene Elliott

May 1930 they staged this Boy Scout camping photo for publicity of the Linn "U-Can-Back" trailer H.H. Linn was building in his own firm in West End, Oneonta. The site is under the town sandpile now at the back of the fairgrounds, you can see the spillway (between the lower pond and mud pond) in the background. Ken Cooke is at left, Adolphus Sloan and the Wheeler boys (sons of Ed Wheeler Jr., grandsons of Mrs. H.H. Linn), and George Whitman?

All I had to do to get this photo was to go to Skowhegan, Maine, in 2004, to get it from the son of a sales agency employee, "Ford & Smiley", that once existed there.