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Federal Rubber Company: plant views. Fantastic promotional sales album documenting the Federal Rubber Company in Cudahy Wisconsin the year before the Fisk Rubber Co. full absorbed their subsidiary with 35 original linen-backed silver gelatin photographs revealing their factory processes machinery and workers.
1920ref. 64492Cudahy WI: Federal Rubber Company Fisk Rubber Co. 1920. Oblong 4to. 11 x 7.5 in. 35 linen-backed silver gelatin photographs sized 9.5 x 7 in. mounted on linen hinges all w/ captions w/in negative in manuscript at lower fore-edge of image. Contemporary textured flexible calf Henn Company post-binder nickel-plated screwposts at gutter margin gilt lettering stamped on front cover some minor scuffing wear hinges split but still sound w/ black linen inner hinges & pastedowns still a VG exemplar w/ all images retaining bright strong contrast. This exceptional souvenir sales photo album captures the Federal Rubber Co. the year before it became wholly absorbed into Fisk Rubber Co. Founded originally in 1911 the company produced solid rubber and pneumatic tires for bicycles Brass Era automobiles & trucks as well as rubber belts rubber flooring and even soles for shoes. The factory located at the corner of Layton & Patrick Cudahy Way operated shifts around the clock advertised under their Federal Extra Gauge Red Tube Double Dable Base Tires and Federal Tires and many other products. These photos depict the “Bike Tire Curing Dept.” Curing and Finishing rooms inner tubes draped stretching off into the distance mountains of boxes holding Federal automobile tires along with machine shop store room finishing rooms featuring a largely female work force calender hard pressure roller machines machine builders and more. The well-composed photographs also depict workers next to giant rubber tire machines vast storage rooms inspecting finished tires waste department wash & dry rubber department mechanical repair department and more. In 1916 Fisk secured shareholder control over Federal Rubber Manufacturing and maintained them as a separate company until after World War I. After 1920 the company became Federal Rubber Co. and would by 1922 be producing 3000 tires a day with 1200 employees. Later prior to World War II in 1940 Fist Rubber co. was entirely taken over by U.S. Rubber and later were transformed into Uniroyal eventually becoming Michelin until 2012. Federal Rubber Company, Fisk Rubber Co., unknown
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