CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Brand name: CARNEGIE/1
Company: Gladding, McBean and Company
Location: Foot of S. California St., Stockton, San Joaquin County, CA
Years: 1931-1932
Type: No. 1 key fire brick
Description: Brand name impressed within a shallow oval frog. Below the brand name
is impressed a number one inside a circle, indicating the no. 1 key shaped brick.
Equipment: Auger machines, repressed waste-heat drier tunnels, 12 round downdraft kilns, 4 rectangular brick kilns
Deposit: Lincoln fire clay from pit of the Clay Corporation of California.
Comments: Gladding, McBean and Company purchased the plant of the Stockton Fire Brick Company in 1931, and continued the line of DIA-D brands at their
Stockton and Pittsburg plants.
This brand style was typical of Gladding, McBean and Company.
Source: California Division of Mines and Geology, v. 21, no. 2, 1925; California Division of Mines
and Geology, v. 54, no. 4, 1958; Graves, Jim, Brick Brands of the United States, 2000.
Rectangular kilns for burning runner bricks, Stockton Fire Brick Co.
From Cal. Div. Mines Geol., v. 21, no. 2, 1925.
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