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Rubber Companies of Pittsburg Collection
1997.88
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Title: Rubber Companies of Pittsburg Collection
Dates: 1916-1951
Collection Number: 1997.88
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 1 box
Repository:
Contra Costa County Historical Society
Martinez, California 94553
Abstract: The Bowers Rubber Works and the Pioneer Rubber Company were rubber factories in Pittsburg for the manufacture of rubber such
as fire hose, belting, packing, automobile tires, and several other products. The factories covered a considerable acreage
and employed several hundred people in total (Bowers Rubber Works is known to have employed about 250 men).
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Contact the Contra Costa County Historical Society for publication permission.
Rubber Companies of Pittsburg Collection. Contra Costa County Historical Society
Biography/Administrative History
The two books were part of a much larger donation of items by the Friends of the Pleasant Hill Library in 1997.
Scope and Content of Collection
The box includes two books. One contains the handwritten bylaws of the Bowers Rubber Works and was written in 1916. The
other book contains typed minutes from a few board meetings of the Pioneer Rubber Company from 1934 to 1951.
business records