Dairies, Milkmen, and Milkmaids

Butter and other products are advertised on the sign painted on the side of this building, which may be the D. A. Griffith & Sons dairy in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Mouse over the image to see a close-up of the sign . D. A. Griffith & Sons Oh boy it's good. Griffith's Home Farm Butter. Made from pure pasteurized cream. One pound net. Guaranteed by D. A. Griffith & Son, Uniontown, Pa. Schlosser's Oak Grove Butter. Farm roll style, 2 lb. Butter, eggs, cheese, milk, smoked meats, etc. Wholesale exclusively. Von Sign Co.

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"Borden's Condensed Milk, Bottled Milk & Cream. Gail Borden, Eagle Brand. Office, No. 227 East 34th St." A real photo postcard of a milkman with his horse and delivery wagon in New York City.

"The Guernsey Cow. Farm made ice cream. World's Largest Cow. Located on Lincoln Highway, U.S. 30, at Exton, Pa." Printed on the other side: "Meet you at the Guernsey Cow, Exton, Pa. Serving tasty luncheons. Internationally famous for our cream caramels, ice cream, and Golden Guernsey milk. Landmarked by the World's Largest Cow. Mellinger Studios, Lancaster, Penna." For more information, see Sean McGlinchey's site about The Guernsey Cow, Exton, Pennsylvania and his album about The Guernsey Cow on Flickr.

A photo of something beginning with C —in this case, a coach on a photographic Christmas card —for the Vintage Photos Theme Park. "Best wishes for a Merry Christmas. Ollie." Oliver "Ollie" Fawcett coached the Lycoming Dairy team, which was an early Little League Baseball team in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He used a photograph of himself and the team on this Christmas card from the 1950s. Coach Fawcett and the boys are posing in front of the field house at what is now known as the historic Carl E. Stotz Field , which is named after the founder of Little League .

Coach Oliver "Ollie" Fawcett and the Lycoming Dairy Little League Baseball team posing in front of the field house at the historic Carl E. Stotz Field . Fawcett used this photo on a Christmas card in the early 1950s.

"What the boys did to the cow." A comic Halloween postcard published by Julius Bien & Co. in 1908. This postcard was addressed on the other side to Miss Lille Collins, 122 Dickerson Street, Newark, N.J., and postmarked in Smyrna, Delaware, on October 30, 1911. Message: "Love to all, E.R.C." For a another card from the same publisher, see What the Pig Thought of the Ghost on Halloween .

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of milkmen or milkwomen (or anything else related to milk, dairies, or home food delivery) . Sign on parade float: "Abbotts 'A' Milk. Ideal for Family Use." A milkman in a white uniform with a bowtie stands in front of a parade float advertising Abbotts "A" Milk from Abbotts Alderney Dairies, which operated in New Jersey and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Perhaps the "A" referred to the Alderney breed of dairy cattle , but I haven't confirmed that. I wish that this snapshot was a bit clearer so that the giant milk bottles on the four corners of the float were easier to see. There's also a milkmaid and a fake cow on the other end of the float. The "Ideal for Family Use" slogan that appears on the sign also shows up in a number of Abbotts "A" Milk ads from 1922, so it's possible that the photo dates to that year. For other milkman photos, see Milkman, Horse, and Wagon for Borden's Condensed Milk, Bottled Milk, and Cream and Season's Greetings from Your Rutter's Milkman (Detail) .