During the 1930's Federal Glass was one of the leaders in machine pressed, colored glassware producing full sets of tableware in typical depression glass patterns of Fruit Lustre, Parrot, Lovebirds, Normandie or Bouquet and Lattice, Madrid, Mayfair and Diana in colors such as amber, pink, purple, blue and marigold iridescent. Many of these depression glass items carry the Federal Glass trademark of an F in a shield.

In the 1960's and 1970's, Federal again made iridized glass in such patterns as Pioneer, Celestial, Petal, Yorktown and Georgetown. The Madrid pattern was re-introduced for the Bicentennial in 1976. They also made a beer stein in iridized milk glass that is frequently seen at antique malls and an eagle covered box. Federal Glass sold their iridized products at department stores often in cardboard boxes that had an opening so that you could see the glass inside.

Federal Glass closed in 1979.