CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Company: Gladding, McBean and Company
Location: Pittsburg, Contra Costa County, CA
Years: 1934-1958
Type: Pressed brick
Description: Brand name impressed into the face.
Equipment: Stiff-mud, dry-press, hand-mold
Capacity: 5,000 per month
Deposit: Ione clay pits, Amador County, and Lincoln, Placer County.
Comments: Based on the brand name and typical style of the name plate, this brick was made
by the Gladding, McBean and Company, probably at their Pittsburg plant.
Source: Directory of the Refractories Industry, 1942; California Division of Mines and Geology v. 47,
no. 4, 1951; California Division of Mines and Geology v. 54, no. 4, 1958.
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