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Cream Separator Advertising Poster

Date: 1927
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering Primrose ball-bearing cream separators featuring color illustration of a woman and two children operating a cream ...
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...
Photograph

Woman Operating Cream Separator

Date: 11 1919
Description: Mrs. Robert Viall operating a belt-driven cream separator. The separator is powered by an International engine.
Photograph

Milking the Cows

Date: 1929
Description: A woman runs the milking operation at the G.L. Hamon dairy farm.
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

Dairy Department

Date: 1915
Description: Max Ballard at the separator and Harvie Connell churning in the dairy department of the Pickens County High School.
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Edward Beyer with Milk Can and Cooler

Date: 1937
Description: Edward Beyer stands with a milk can, cream separator, and McCormick-Deering cooler on his farm.
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Dairy Equipment on Hazen Pettit Farm

Date: 1937
Description: Rooms with bottles, table, canisters and other dairying equipment on the Hazen Pettit farm. Original caption states: "The vat in the foreground is used fo...
Photograph

Harvey Schmidt with Portable Milker

Date: 03 30 1939
Description: Harvey Schmidt stands amongst a row of cows in a barn to use a portable milking machine.
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Men with Milkers

Date: 1938
Description: Three men, two wearing overalls and one in a suit and hat, stand outdoors in front of a building beside four McCormick-Deering single-unit milkers on the f...
Photograph

Man Carrying Milker

Date: 01 17 1938
Description: Mr. E. Bognuda stands in a barn doorway while carrying a McCormick milker. The original caption reads: "Milkers on dairy farm owned by Mr. E. Bognuda locat...
Photograph

Man and Girl with McCormick Milkers

Date: 1937
Description: A man crouches beside a McCormick single-unit milker outside a barn, while a young girl standing next to him holds the tubes of another milker in her hands...
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Milking Machine Sale

Date: 06 03 1937
Description: Ralph Lower, dairy equipment salesman from International Harvester's Syracuse branch, sells a farmer a milking machine at Cedardale Stock Farm. A McCormick...
Photograph

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 ...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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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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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Cream Separator

Date: 11 1919
Description: Mrs. Irving Bielby operating a cream separator run by a gasoline engine at Babcock farm.

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