Very Young Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. Worker's Photo ID Badge on Leather Mount, As Found 1800s brush 11” x 14” done on

11” x 14” done on heavyweight sketchbook paper

this I believe was the first incarnation of the graphic

Pohl IDEAL harmonica

Each measures 5 1/4" x 3" x 13/16" not including post

Very Young Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. Worker's Photo ID Badge on Leather Mount, As Found 1800s brush 11” x 14” done onWhat struck me first about this one is how very very young this young man looks perhaps his first job out of school, and that youth, particularly, prompting an imagining of the life that unfolded from there. Not a revelation, I know, but what a lot these old photo IDs collectively tell us about the "America Century" and the industries and workforce that fueled it. Unlike many companies long forgotten (or long since absorbed into large conglomerations)