Details
Creator Bond Brothers, photographer.
Title [B.F. Goodrich Rubber Company's national tire testing fleet at Lincoln Way garage, 417 North 63rd Street, West Philadelphia] [graphic] / Bond Bros., Phila.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1917
Date [ca. 1917]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver mounted on cardboard ; mount 25 x 30 cm (10 x 11.75 in.)
Description Promotional photograph showing six cars with men drivers parked in front of the brick garage bearing the signage "Under New Management," "Garage," and "Goodrich Black Beauty Tread Tires; Best in the Long Run." The open-top cars are parked on an angle with the drivers looking at the viewer. Individuals are posed behind the cars, including an African American man, attired in a white collared shirt, a tie, and a suit jacket. Residences are visible on either side of the garage. There are trolley tracks in the street.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Blind stamp in lower right corner: Bond Bros. Phila.
Negative inscribed: 21120.
Manuscript note identifying incorrect location on verso: 52nd & Lancaster.
Purchased 1989.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject B.F. Goodrich Company.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Automobile equipment & supplies stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Automobiles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Commercial products -- Testing.
Geographic subject West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Sixty-Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 417.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1910-1920.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Bond [P.9260.497]
Accession number P.9260.497