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Lily Cream Separators Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for Lily brand cream separators featuring a color illustration of a woman operating a hand crank cream separator. Below is a scene of co...
Poster

Cream Separator in Spanish

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster of a woman using a Bluebell cream separator. The poster is in Spanish and was made in Chile for W.R. Grace. Form number A-538-C.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: A man is weighing a bucket on an old scale at the Evans Creamery.
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Loading Milk Cans

Date: 1937
Description: A man unloads milk cans from a Ford Model T pickup truck at a creamery receiving station.
Poster

Bluebell Cream Harvester Calendar

Date: 1913
Description: Calendar advertising International Harvester's Bluebell brand Cream Harvester (more commonly called a cream separator). Features a large illustration of tw...
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Woman Using Cream Separator

Date: 07 28 1924
Description: Mrs. Frances Lauth operating an engine-driven Primrose Cream Separator on Hinsdale Farm.
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Cream Separator Display at Indiana State Fair

Date: 1929
Description: Fairgoers gather around the McCormick-Deering ball-bearing cream separator display at the Indiana State Fair.
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Cream Separator Demonstration

Date: 1930
Description: A group of men and women are gathered to watch two men demonstrate a McCormick-Deering cream separator at A&P Creamery. The cream separator was sold by the...
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Cream Separator and Milker Display

Date: 1932
Description: Two men stand next to cream separators and milkers on display inside I.E. Lillegaard's International Harvester dealership. Cans of oil stand in the foregro...
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Children with Cream Separator

Date: 05 25 1927
Description: A boy is holding a drinking glass up to the spout of a cream separator as a man is pouring a metal milk pail into the device. A young girl is sitting on a ...
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Woman and Child with Cream Separator

Date: 05 25 1927
Description: A woman is emptying a metal milk can into a cream separator while a girl is standing by watching. They are in a large room with a sink and a cabinet. An el...
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Children and Woman with Cream Separator

Date: 10 27 1926
Description: A girl us turning the crank on a cream separator as a boy and a woman are looking on. The woman and children are standing in a kitchen, and the woman is wa...
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Young Woman with Cream Separator

Date: 07 07 1925
Description: A young woman wearing a dress and a pearl necklace fills a metal pail marked "School" from a cream separator. Additional milk pails are on the floor beside...
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Men with Cream Separators

Date: 1925
Description: Two men are posing outdoors wearing three-piece suits. They are standing on either side of a McCormick cream separator. An additional cream separator is ly...
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Men with Cream Separator

Date: 1925
Description: A man is emptying a pail into a Number 4 electric cream separator in a shed on the farm of John Doanan. Mr. Doanan is standing with a pail in the foregroun...
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Man using Cream Separator

Date: 1925
Description: A man is turning the crank of a McCormick Primrose cream separator.
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Woman with Cream Separator

Date: 1921
Description: A woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a dress is standing and holding the hand crank of a McCormick Primrose cream separator on the porch of a house.
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Woman Operating Cream Separator

Date: 1919
Description: Mrs. Robert Viall is using a gasoline engine to run a cream separator on the Babcock farm. The cream separator is driven by belts that are attached to the ...
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Viennese Coffee

Date: 1935
Description: Irene Steinkopf, wife of Associated Press foreign correspondent Alvin J. Steinkopf and a former Milwaukee journalist, tastes her first Viennese coffee with...
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Creamery

Date: 1928
Description: View across road of two men posing outside a creamery. The creamery has a roofed loading dock on the side.

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