Very Young Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. Worker's Photo ID Badge on Leather Mount, As Found wolf with claw and the chalk drawings on

and the chalk drawings on both sides of the slate--which I believe are quite old--feel extra special to me for having endured

and the horse cut from an apothecary trade card

and makes me at least really want to make George smile

This drawing dates to the very early 20th c

Boothbay Harbor

Very Young Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. Worker's Photo ID Badge on Leather Mount, As Found wolf with claw and the chalk drawings 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)