Dublin Core
Title
Rubber Ball
Subject
Agribusiness
Description
This red rubber ball was a promotional item for the Crown Dairy Supply Company located at 324 W. College Ave., the previous location of the Clysmic Spring bottling plant. E.B. Schurts founded Crown Dairy in 1943, later working with Frank Ruhling to establish Waukesha Rubber in 1947.
In 1963, the partners sold, but Waukesha Rubber continued operation in Waukesha until 2001. At its height, Crown Dairy and Waukesha Rubber produced more than 448 parts.
By the 1940’s dairy farms changed from hand to machine milking to increase production. Poultry farms added mechanical lines for collecting eggs. Crown Dairy and Waukesha Rubber provided parts to the companies making these larger machines. Their parts were used in milking machines, egg sorters, chicken pluckers, meat separators, rubber seals, and later roller skate assembly parts.
Interestingly, this toy showed that Crown Dairy used natural, not just synthetic rubber, simply by its color. Dairy farmers preferred natural, red rubber for their milking machines. World War II made natural red rubber more difficult to obtain.
Donor: Jane Koepp
Adopt an Artifact Sponsor: Eaton
In 1963, the partners sold, but Waukesha Rubber continued operation in Waukesha until 2001. At its height, Crown Dairy and Waukesha Rubber produced more than 448 parts.
By the 1940’s dairy farms changed from hand to machine milking to increase production. Poultry farms added mechanical lines for collecting eggs. Crown Dairy and Waukesha Rubber provided parts to the companies making these larger machines. Their parts were used in milking machines, egg sorters, chicken pluckers, meat separators, rubber seals, and later roller skate assembly parts.
Interestingly, this toy showed that Crown Dairy used natural, not just synthetic rubber, simply by its color. Dairy farmers preferred natural, red rubber for their milking machines. World War II made natural red rubber more difficult to obtain.
Donor: Jane Koepp
Adopt an Artifact Sponsor: Eaton
Creator
Waukesha Rubber Company
Publisher
Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum
Date
1940's
Rights
Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum