Firestone Tire and Rubber Company study collection
odd: label: General note
content: Title provided by EEPA staff.
name: label: Creator
content: Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
label: Names
content: Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
label: Names
content: Barclay, Edwin James, 1882-1955
label: Names
content: Davis, Benjamin O., Sr., 1880-1970
label: Names
content: Firestone, Harvey S., 1898-1973
label: Names
content: Tubman, William V.S., 1895-1971
place: label: Place
content: United States -- Officials and employees
label: Place
content: Akron (Ohio)
topic: label: Topic
content: Presidents -- Liberia
label: Topic
content: Factories
label: Topic
content: Defense industries
creator: label: Creator
content: Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
abstract: label: Summary
content: This study collection contains five 8 x 10 inch black and white publicity photographs, dated May 31, 1943, of Liberian officials, U.S. State Department representatives, and Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. personnel, taken as they toured the company's war production plants in Ohio. Each photograph has complete typewritten documentation tipped to the back. Includes images of President Edwin Barclay and President-elect William V.S. Tubman of Liberia, Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: On May 31, 1942, President Edwin Barclay of Liberia, President-elect William V.S. Tubman, Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis (then the highest ranking African American officer in the American Armed Forces) and State Department representatives toured the war production plants of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio. President Barclay and his delegation came to Akron from Washington, D.C., where they had been guests of President Roosevelt.

In 1926, the Firestone Rubber Company obtained a concession from the Liberian government which gave it the right to lease up to 1 million acres--roughly 4% of the entire country--for 99 years. With this leased land, Firestone created the world's largest rubber plantation at Harbel, Liberia. Exportation of rubber from the new Firestone plantations began in 1934 and rubber quickly became the backbone of the Liberian economy. When Malaysia fell to the Japanese during World War II, the Firestone plantation in Liberia became a main supplier of rubber for Allied forces.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Photographic prints (black and white , 8 x 10 inches.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1943 May 31
container: label: Container
content: Item 5
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Janet Stanley, Warren M. Robbins Library, National Museum of African Art, 2008.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2008-013
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographs
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Arranged by Firestone negative file number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints