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Copy negative of an aerial photograph of the proposed Firestone factory, Los Angeles, 1927

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Title: Copy negative of an aerial photograph of the proposed Firestone factory, Los Angeles, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Copy negative of an aerial photograph of the Firestone factories in Akon, Ohio, which has been hand painted in order to show the proposed plan for the Los Angeles factory.
Based off image 21198/zz002dd9d0.
This photograph appears in the article, "New Tire Factory to be One of the Largest in world." Los Angeles Times, 19 Jul. 1927: A1.
Text from newspaper caption: Firestone Plant to be Patterned After Akron Structure. The plant of the Firestone Fire and Rubber Company on the forty-acre site bounded by Alameda street. Manchester and Santa Fe avenues will be one of the largest tire factories in the world. Photograph shows the main plant with subsidiary buildings in the backgrounds. The factory here will follow in general the lines of the plant in Akron. [Los Angeles Times, 19 Jul. 1927: A1.]
Typed note with negative: Firestone. Tire. Factory. LA.
Text from negative sleeve: Firestone Rubber Co.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_2331
ark:/21198/zz002dd9bz
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Factories--California--Los Angeles
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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