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Image / Drawing of the exterior of the Samson Rubber Company, ca.1928

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Title
Drawing of the exterior of the Samson Rubber Company, ca.1928
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1928
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 drawing of the exterior of the Samson Rubber Company, ca.1928. Right of center stands a roofed structure bearing the name "Samson Tires" on a large placard. Left of this, two smoke stacks spew from atop a small building. A short brick building stands beside this, while another structure with a tank on its' roof sits behind it. The tank reads "Samson Tires." In the foreground, several trucks loaded with tires are depicted in different states of motion. The background is neutral.
Photoprint reads: "Samson plant #1 at Compton".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m12515
USC-2-1-1-12670 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41200
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12515
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41200.jpg
Subject
Industry--Rubber--Identified companies
Rubber industry and trade
Samson Company
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1928
Place
California
Compton
Los Angeles
USA
Source
41200 [Accession number]
84-1-620 [Microfiche number]
CHS-41200 [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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