Worker inspecting tires, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company factory
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Description
View of a man inspecting tires at the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company factory in Akron, Ohio. Label on back: "Firestone News Service. The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. 1200 Firestone Parkway, Akron 17, Ohio, Hemlock 4-1671. 500 Fifth Avenue, New York 356, New York, Longacre 3-6100, 2525 Firestone Boulevard, Los Angeles 54, California, Ludlow 3-4411, 26 East 16th Street, Chicago, Illinois, Wabash 2-1515. 61-1018. Firestone tires for antique automobiles receive the same careful inspection as modern tires. Above an employee at the Akron, Ohio, tire plant inspects one of the thousands of antique tires produced each year. end. PR-62-42." Handwritten on back: "Factories--Firestone."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na034494
- Subject:
- Automobiles--Tires
- Automobile industry workers--Ohio--Akron
- Factories--Ohio--Akron
- Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 10 x 8 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- Factories--Firestone Tire
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.