Very Young Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. Worker's Photo ID Badge on Leather Mount, As Found 1800s brush and his carved face

and his carved face

Pohl IDEAL harmonica

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

topped with brass tacks at the center of each

Very Young Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. Worker's Photo ID Badge on Leather Mount, As Found 1800s brush and his carved faceWhat 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)