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Title
Exterior view of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company factory
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of an exterior view of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company factory, [s.d.]. The factory building is a long brick structure with rows of large windows. A tall clock tower rises from the center of the building. A wide dirt road can be seen in the foreground at right. Large puddles of water can be seen in the middle of the road, and trees line the road at right. Several people can be seen near the factory at left.
The factory built by the Goodyear in 1919-1920 in Los Angeles on Central Avenue, around 66th Street. It opened in 1920 and closed in 1977. In 1988 the building was supposed to have been converted to a post office facility.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
13 x 17 cm.
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m22698 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-35350
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m22698
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-35350.jpg
Subject
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Rubber industry and trade
Tires, rubber
Industrial sites
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
35350 [Accession number]
CHS-35350 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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