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	Women inspect landing rafts at Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Identifier firestoneakr001.jpg Title Women inspect landing rafts at Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Subject Firestone 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. Creator unknown Location Depicted Firestone Park (Akron, Ohio) Akron (Ohio) Time Period Post-Industrial: 1930-1959 Date Original 1942-05-21 Object Type black-and-white photographs Size of Original 10 x 8 in. Collection Cleveland Press Collection Homepage http://www.clevelandmemory.org/press/ Donor Cole, Joseph E. Copyright http://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/ Format jpeg Repository Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections. Repository Homepage http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/ Digital Publisher Cleveland Memory Project Further Reading For more information see the Summit Memory Project at, http://www.summitmemory.org/
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