Day Sixteen, 1100-1315, Total Time = 99 Hours 50 Minutes

I decided today that I was going to tackle the two biggest files dealing with Akron; Goodyear and Firestone. These two files were overflowing with pictures and I could have created a gallery with these two files alone. The first step that I took with these files was to separate the pictures into piles: manufacturing, people, World War II, buildings, and unusable. The unusable pile had photos that only dealt with the rubber company and Akron indirectly. This pile also included any photos that I could not determine what the subject matter was because there was nothing written on the back of the photo, or those that, from contextual clues, I could not determine what the photo was dealing with. WWII was an important pile because there were many materials made in Akron and there is a lot of interest in the subject. From the surveys I found that some people wanted to know more about the manufacturing of tires so this pile was important also. From the piles I picked the best representative shots to best tell the story of Akron. Some of the photos may not be the most interesting, but they do shed more light on Akron.