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Title
Mattress-making process at the United States Rubber 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 the mattress-making process at the United States Rubber Company, ca.1950. White foam rubber is poured, after whipping, into a mattress mold to create a Koylon foam mattress. Someone's hand rests at left, as the rubber is poured into the textured mold.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12525
USC-2-1-1-12680 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41207
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12525
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41207.jpg
Subject
Industry--Rubber--Identified companies
Rubber industry and trade
Mattresses
United States Rubber Company
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1950
Place
Indiana
USA
Source
41207 [Accession number]
84-1-1234 [Microfiche number]
CHS-41207 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 512923 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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