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Poster

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.
Poster

Cream Separator Advertising Poster

Date: 1914
Description: South American advertising poster for the Bluebell(?) cream separator. Includes color illustrations and the text: "La Famosa 'Descremadora' La 'Favorita' ....
Book or Pamphlet

Dairymaid Cream Harvester Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Dairymaid line of cream separators. Features an oval portrait of a young woman wearing a bonn...
Map or Atlas

Dairy Progress Map

Date: 1918
Description: Map illlustrates creameries, condenseries and cheese factories in Wisconsin, January, 1918, and value of products. Five smaller maps in margin show changes...
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...
Photograph

Creamery

Date: 1912
Description: A two-story creamery. The building features an attached garage, tall chimney, and gabled roof.
Photograph

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 ...
Photograph

Depot and Creamery

Date: 1913
Description: The train depot with a creamery next door.
Photograph

New Creamery

Date: 1912
Description: Two men in work uniforms pose on the loading of the newly constructed creamery. Another man on the extreme right is carrying a milk can.
Photograph

Cross Section of Two Rooms with Man and Woman

Date: 1919
Description: Cross section of two adjacent rooms: a woman on the left is pouring milk into a cream separator, and on the right is a man putting corn into a grinder.

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