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Title: Harvey S. Firestone
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Keystone Photo Service
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photo shows Harvey S. Firestone, head of the great industry, when he personally built the first tire made at the present factory. 5000 tires and 7500 tubes are now being made daily. Once the expansion program is completed, 12,000 tires and 14,000 tubes will be produced daily. Photo dated: May 18, 1929.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00045131
Herald Examiner Collection
HE Box-1502
CARL0000049398
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15799
Subject: Firestone, Harvey Samuel,--1868-1938
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Tire industry--California--South Gate
Industrial facilities--California--South Gate
Automobiles--Tires--California--South Gate
Inner tubes--California--South Gate
Industrialists--United States
Tires--California--South Gate
Interiors--California--South Gate
South Gate (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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