An album of 35 tack-sharp views capturing interiors of a Federal Rubber Company plant in 1920. Federal was founded in 1907 by a small group of Milwaukee venture capitalists. A plant was established in the southern suburb of Cudahy, Wisconsin where we believe these images were captured around the time of a reorganization and merger with the Fisk Rubber Company of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. Production at the Cudahy plant maintained until effects of the Depression saw its permanent closure in 1933.

Image capture production of tires and inner tubes for bicycle and automobile applications along with additional rubber products including hoses and belts. Views typically include laborers, many of them women, and the album provides a broad and well-executed photographic glimpse at a rubber production facility in the Midwest circa-1920.

[Photo Albums] : [Automobilia]. FEDERAL RUBBER COMPANY PLAN VIEWS 1920 [Cover Title - Album of Original Photographs]. [Cudahy, Wisconsin]: 1920. Commercial album. Approximately 11" x 7 1/2." Full leather wrappers with two metal post binders at left margin and gilt stamped title lettering to front. With gilt commercial stamping of the Heinn Company of Milwaukee to interior of rear panel. Holds 35 approximately 9 1/2" x 7" silver print black and white photographs, each backed with linen and bound-in via paper tabs at left margin. Prints with lettering and dates in negatives. Outer leather with some drying, stress at rear panel joint. Overall well preserved and very good.