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Object Name |
Bottle |
Date |
ca. 1937-1960 |
Description |
Milk bottle, clear glass, cylindrical with tapering neck, Janssen's Milk, one quart size. Front of bottle has an embossed silhouette of a milk bottle crossed by script lettering on a diagonal: "Janssen's / Milk" with the words "ONE QUART LIQUID" below. Near the bottom on the front is an embossed mark: "K-9". Embosssed lettering on back: "JANSSEN / REGISTERED". Bottom has a large embossed letter "J". (Keywords: Staten Island, New York, Twentieth Century) |
Ownership and History |
Janssen Dairy was a New Jersey corporation that had a distribution station on Staten Island at 754 Manor Road from 1937. By 1962 Janssen had become a division of Foremost Dairies, Inc. |
Earliest Date |
1937 |
Latest Date |
1960 |
Maker |
Knox Glass Bottle Company |
Material |
Glass |
Subjects |
Dairy products Food |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Merchandising T&E |
Catalog Number |
X84.0139 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Efron family in memory of Dr. Meryl Efron, November 2014. |
Legal Status |
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