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LABCO/(Crescent)

Donated by Ken Leonard

Brand name: LABCo/(Crescent)

Company: Los Angeles Brick Company

Location: Office at 1078 N. Mission Road, Los Angeles. Plant at Alberhill, Riverside County, CA.

Years: 1925-1930

Type: Fire brick

Description: Brand name impressed on the face with a crescent impressed beneath it.

Equipment: Auger machine with automatic cutter, repress machine, four round down-draft kilns fueled by air-atomized oil.

Deposit: Alberhill clay pits, Riverside County, CA.

Source: California State Mining Bureau Report 15, 1917; California State Mining Bureau Bulletin 99, 1928, p. 105-107; Gurcke, Karl, Bricks and Brickmaking, The University of Idaho Press, 1987.

Continuous kiln and clay pit of the Los Angeles Brick Co.,
Los Angeles, CA. From Cal. Div. Mines Geol., Bull. 38, 1906.

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