LABROY O.Livre Rare Book
Five striking photographs shot of the workers in the newly completed Vulcanized Products Co. factory completed in 1915 to manufacture rubber automobile tires. The series of images show the overhead powered machinery cutting tables tire moulds and workers completing the mounting of the finished tires.
1916rif. 58408Muskegon MI: Vulcanized Products Co. Ladd & Son Photographers ca. 1916. Oblong 4to. Five silver gelatin photos sized 7.75 x 9.75 in. mounted on 14 x 12 in. embossed gray studio board photographer’s imprint on versos very minor rubbing slight bumping to couple corners still a NF set of mounted photographs. These sharp industrial photographs show the early manufacturing of rubber automobile & truck tires by workers and machinery at the Vulcanized Products Co. factory in Muskegon MI. By December 1915 the company had completed the buildings and installed the manufacturing equipment for their expanded automobile tire factory. Upon opening the company was producing 200 completed tires daily and continued to ramp up later as the U.S. entered World War I. In addition they were the original manufacturer for Peninsular Tire & Rubber Co. tires later Gillette Tires before they set up their own factory in Eau Claire WI. Two of the images show women working the production line. Ladd & Son was founded originally in Detroit MI in 1872 by B.W. Ladd who later brought his son Charles Ladd 1870-1925 into the business and moved to Muskegon MI in 1891 quickly establishing themselves as popular portrait & commercial photographers in Muskegon. Goldie Ladd 1874-1931 began working the business with her husband and continued the studio after his death selling out before her death at the beginning of the Great Depression. See: Headlight Flashes Along the Grand Trunk Railway System November 1897 pp. 22-23; Medrano-Bigas Gillette Tires and the Mighty Polar Bear The Forgotten years of Bibendum Michelin’s American Period in Milltown 2018; Muskegon Business Boosting Notes Pere Marquette Service No. 7 December 1915 p. 7. Vulcanized Products Co., Ladd & Son, Photographers, unknown
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