Vulcan participated in many trade shows, as is evidenced by its long participation in the Offshore Technology Conference. The early years of Vulcan’s foray into pile driving equipment corresponded with a series of “world’s fairs” in the U.S., and Vulcan exhibited at several of these. Two of them Vulcan was especially proud of: the Columbian Exhibition right in Chicago, at the centre of which was the “Great White Way,” and the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. Vulcan featured the awards they won at both on the back cover of their general catalogues up until 1920; an image of that back cover can be seen above. (Unfortunately the awards were stolen from the Chattanooga facility in the early 1980’s.)
We don’t have any documentation of how Vulcan’s actual display looked in Chicago; a drawing for the Buffalo exposition is shown at the right.
An image of the front cover of the 1920 catalogue–in its original colour (the image above was put into greyscale to make it easier to read) is shown below.
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