Description: This photograph shows a man making tires at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company factory in Akron, Ohio. Frank Seiberling (1859-1955) founded Goodyear in 1898. Located on the banks of the Little Cuyahoga River in Akron, the company operated in a converted strawboard factory with thirteen employees. Although its main product was tires, the company also made rubber poker chips, fire hoses, and horseshoe pads. By 1926 it had become the largest rubber company in the world. The photograph measures 8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.4 cm). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3084_3675638_001
Subjects: Transportation; Business and Labor; Tires; Tire industry; Rubber industry; Employees; Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Man working at the Firestone Rubber Company. Harvey Firestone founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio, in 1900. The company relied on others to produce rubber, instead focusing on tire production. By 1910, the company manufactured more than one million tires, including for Ford automobiles. Firestone's innovations in tire design allowed automobiles to travel faster and more safely, and today as part of the Bridgestone Corporation, it is still one of the largest of its kind in the world. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03453
Subjects: Rubber industry and trade--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Tire industry; Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Poster advertisement for Goodyear Pneumatic Cord Tires for trucks. The poster features black-and-white photographs of trucks using the pneumatic cord tires while making an 8-day round trip between Akron, Ohio, and Boston, Massachusetts, in 1918. Pneumatic tires rely on a network of cords to provide their shape and enough tensile strength to maintain sufficient inflation. Frank Seiberling (1859-1955) founded the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in 1898. Located on the banks of the Little Cuyahoga River in Akron, the company operated in a converted strawboard factory with thirteen employees. Although its main product was tires, the company also made rubber poker chips, fire hoses, and horseshoe pads. By 1926 it had become the largest rubber company in the world. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS7660
Subjects: Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company; Tire industry; Rubber industry; Automotive technology; Transportation--Ohio;
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Employees of the Firestone Rubber Company making tires on an assembly line. Harvey Firestone founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio, in 1900. The company relied on others to produce rubber, instead focusing on tire production. By 1910, the company manufactured more than one million tires, including for Ford automobiles. Firestone's innovations in tire design allowed automobiles to travel faster and more safely, and today as part of the Bridgestone Corporation, it is still one of the largest of its kind in the world. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03454
Subjects: Rubber industry and trade--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Firestone Tire and Rubber Company; Tire industry
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Trolley conveyor made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, in use at the Pharis Tire and Rubber Company, Newark, Ohio, 1929. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01520
Subjects: Rubber industry workers -- Ohio; Jeffrey Manufacturing Company (Columbus, Ohio); Tire industry;
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio);
 

Description: This aerial view of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio was taken in the 1940s. Frank Seiberling (1859-1955) founded Goodyear in 1898. Located on the banks of the Little Cuyahoga River in Akron, the company operated in a converted strawboard factory with thirteen employees. Although its main product was tires, the company also made rubber poker chips, fire hoses, and horseshoe pads. By 1926 it had become the largest rubber company in the world. The photograph measures 8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.4 cm). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3084_3675632_002
Subjects: Business and Labor; Factories; Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company; Rubber industry
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image depicts the Goodyear Zeppelin Airdock in Akron, Ohio in 1937. It is 1200 feet in length and the largest building in the world without interior supports (1937). U.S. #224 in the background. Akron Municipal Airport. The dock is long enough to form a huge covered bridge over Niagara Falls with 75 feet to spare. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06204
Subjects: Akron (Ohio); Airships; Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company; Rubber industry
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two women in Balloon Room at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, ca. 1930. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00019
Subjects: Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company; Rubber industry; United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio); Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads; "Girls working in Balloon Room of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F02_006_001
Subjects: Business and Labor; Transportation--Ohio--History.; Rubber industry; Employees; Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company; Ohio Women
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: This illustration shows two men working at a "Chaffee Machine" used to process rubber. A caption beneath the illustration reads: "Calendars heated internally by Steam, for spreading India Rubber into Sheets or upon Cloth, called the 'Chaffee Machine'." Large gears and cogs are attached to various wheels and pulleys to turn three large rolls of rubber material. The illustration is from "Trials of an Inventor, Life and Discoveries of Charles Goodyear," by Rev. Bradford K. Peirce, published in 1866. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04285
Subjects: Rubber industry and trade--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor; Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company; Rubber industry workers--Ohio; Rubber industry and trade--Ohio
 

Description: This photograph, collected for use in the Ohio Guide, shows women workers making spark plugs at the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio, ca. 1930. These workers were likely working as part of the Works Progress Administration project. In 1935, President Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00029
Subjects: Rubber industry and trade--Ohio; Women--Employment; Firestone Tire and Rubber Company; Akron (Ohio); Works Progress Administration
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reproduction of a portrait of Harvey Firestone of Akron, Ohio. Firestone founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in 1900. The company relied on others to produce rubber, instead focusing on tire production. By 1910, the company manufactured more than one million tires, including for Ford automobiles. Firestone's innovations in tire design allowed automobiles to travel faster and more safely, and today as part of the Bridgestone Corporation, it is still one of the largest of its kind in the world. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02667
Subjects: Rubber industry and trade -- Ohio; Firestone Tire and Rubber Company; Firestone, Harvey Samuel, 1868-1938; Industrialists--Ohio
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)