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Title
Man taking part in the tire-making process at the B.F. Goodrich Company, ca.1950
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1950
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 a man taking part in the tire-making process at the B.F. Goodrich Company, ca.1950. Sheet of weftless cord pass through a four-roll calender where it is covered with uncured rubber. The man stands across this in a cap and cover-alls, with his right hand tending to the chord. A series of pipes stands between him and the uncured rubber.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12529
USC-2-1-1-12684 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41187
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12529
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41187.jpg
Subject
B.F. Goodrich Company
Industry--Rubber--Identified companies
Rubber industry and trade
Tires, rubber
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1950
Place
5400 East Olympic Boulevard
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
41187 [Accession number]
84-1-621 [Microfiche number]
CHS-41187 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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