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CARNEGIE


Brand name: CARNEGIE

Company: Carnegie Brick and Pottery Company

Location: Carnegie, San Joaquin County, CA

Years: 1902-1911

Type: Enameled face brick

Description: Company's name is impressed on the face. Brown enamel covers all surfaces.

Comments: Salt glaze gives the face brick a typical dark brown color, used for decorative facings on the facades of buildings. For more information, see under "Brickmakers" the Carnegie Brick and Pottery Company.


View of the Carnegie Brick and Pottery Company operations, 1908.
From Mosier, History of Tesla, 1998.

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