California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Exterior view of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company factory, [s.d.]

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Exterior view of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company factory, [s.d.]

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company factory, [s.d.]. The factory building is a long brick structure with rows of large windows. A tall clock tower rises from the center of the building. A wide dirt road can be seen in the foreground at right. Large puddles of water can be seen in the middle of the road, and trees line the road at right. Several people can be seen near the factory at left.; The factory built by the Goodyear in 1919-1920 in Los Angeles on Central Avenue, around 66th Street. It opened in 1920 and closed in 1977. In 1988 the building was supposed to have been converted to a post office facility.

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Title Exterior view of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company factory, [s.d.]

Subject Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (naf corporate name), industrial sites (adlf), Rubber industry and trade (lcsh), Tires, rubber (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 13 x 17 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m22698

Identifier 35350 (accession number), CHS-35350 (call number), CHS-35350 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-21942 (legacy record id), chs-m22698 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 21942

Unique identifier UC125307

Legacy Identifier CHS-35350.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
47.8 cm × 35.1 cm at 300dpi

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Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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