Photograph of Mogul Sprinkling Truck. The city contracted with private companies like F. A. Stiers to sprinkle water on the city streets on a regular basis to keep down the dirt.
Mogul Sprinkling Truck
Lemen, Richard W.
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TrucksStreet cleaning
Saint Louis (Mo.)
1910-1919
St. Louis was the first city in the United States to use auto-sprinkling trucks like this. One of these Mogul trucks could sprinkle 22 miles of street from curb to curb in 11 hours.
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