Bottle, Milk
- Object Name:
- Bottle, Milk
- Object ID:
- 2014.007
- Place of Origin:
- Elmira, NY
- Date:
- 1934
- Description:
- Milk bottle. Used by Albert W. Flanders dairy, Concord, NH, 1934. "A. W. FLANDERS / F / REGISTERED / CONCORD. N. H." embossed in circle on front. "F" in circle on front and back of neck. "ONE QUART / LIQUID" embossed on front. "mTc" embossed mark on left front at base. "3E4" in circle over embossed "F" on bottom. Cylindrical body with tapered neck and rounded lip. Colorless molded glass with two vertical seams. Made by Thatcher Manufacturing Company, Elmira, NY.1934.
- Material:
- Glass
- Dimensions:
- H-9.5 Dia-3.8 inches
- Provenance:
- Albert W. Flanders was born in Danbury, NH, on April 24, 1858, son of Charles A. and Mary F. Flanders. By 1882 Flanders had moved to Concord were he worked as a postal clerk and railroad mail agent before starting a dairy in 1915. Flanders retired in 1930 leaving the management of the dairy to his son and wife. By 1936 it had been renamed A. W. Flanders Sons dairy when Malcolm L. Flanders and Irville A. Sargent joined the business. After Albert W. Flanders' death on May 9, 1938, the business was renamed the Flanders Dairy.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of James Angwin
- People:
- Flanders, Albert W. (1858-1938)
- Subjects:
- Milk, Milk industry, Dairy farming, Dairying
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