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Women inspect landing rafts at Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Women inspect landing rafts at Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Identifierfirestoneakr001.jpg
TitleWomen inspect landing rafts at Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
SubjectFirestone Tire and Rubber Company
Boats
World War II
Women
Women workers
Description"Making an all-important contribution to America's war production program, many girls like the three shown above, are helping to turn out these 10-man rubber landing boats at plants of The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. The boat can be inflated in a matter of seconds from a carbon dioxide container built into its side. When inflated, the Firestone landing boat will safely carry 10 fully equipped fighting men." -- photo caption.
Creatorunknown
Location DepictedFirestone Park (Akron, Ohio)
Akron (Ohio)
Time PeriodPost-Industrial: 1930-1959
Date Original1942-05-21
Object Typeblack-and-white photographs
Size of Original10 x 8 in.
CollectionCleveland Press
Collection Homepagehttp://www.clevelandmemory.org/press/
DonorCole, Joseph E.
Copyrighthttp://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/
Formatjpeg
RepositoryCleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.
Repository Homepagehttp://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/
Digital PublisherCleveland Memory Project
Further ReadingFor more information see the Summit Memory Project at, http://www.summitmemory.org/
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