An album of original photography singularly documenting the origins and product development of the Rocket Implement Company of Paramount (then known as Clearwater) in Los Angeles County during 1946. The firm produced a line of agricultural plowing equipment including a large subsoiler designed to be pulled by a Caterpillar bulldozer in a venture which sought to capitalize on the postwar marketplace surplus of building materials and equipment.

The album opens with views of the construction of modest office and production facilities in then-rural Clearwater and proceeds to document product testing near Imperial Valley, and professional, enlarged views of finished equipment. Rocket Implement seems to have been founded by a Frank C. Stapleton, born in 1914 in Alberta, Canada and remained in business until about 1957. 

An unusually detailed. largely-vernacular primary glimpse at immediately-postwar industrial manufacturing and agricultural development in and around Los Angeles. 

[Photo Albums] : [Agriculture] : [Californiana]. [Photo Album Documenting a Farm Implement Manufacturer in Postwar Los Angeles]. [Paramount, California]: (ca. 1946). Commercial album, approximately 13" x 10." Blue cloth over flexible boards around a plastic post and leather string binding at left margin. 29 black paper leaves with 71 black and white photographs (and one clipping) set loosely into corner mounts to rectos amid generous white album pen notation. Print dimensions vary from about 3 1/4" x 2 1/2" to approximately 8" x 10" with the majority of views approximately 5" x 3 1/2" snapshots. Some flaking from page corners, fading to notations, and toning and discolor to outer album cloth, otherwise seemingly complete and well preserved.