Very Young Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. Worker's Photo ID Badge on Leather Mount, As Found hand broom 5 7/8" l x 4

5 7/8" l x 4 3/4" t x 1" d and in good condition

with a near old fold line down the center

I just love this look of this piece

with just a small loss to one toe and a great immediacy and potent presence to it all

Very Young Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. Worker's Photo ID Badge on Leather Mount, As Found hand broom 5 7/8" l x 4What 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)