In the 20th century, customers could opt to have milk delivered to their homes on a daily basis. The bottles were left either on the doorstep or in special boxes by front doors. Since bottles required strilization and small dairies often couldn’t afford steam cleaning machinery, they sent their milk to central bottling plants, often associated with larger dairy farms such as the one that made this bottle, the Wheeler & Taylor Dairy of Keene, New Hampshire.
Milk Bottle. 1950. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/1985-0024-016/. Accessed on December 8, 2024.
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