Got Milk?

antique milk bottleIn the process of researching New York city in the 1880s I have collected hundreds of small pieces of information that might interest people. I’m going to post one or two whenever it occurs to me. To start:

1879: The first milk bottles appear in Brooklyn, where the Echo Farms Dairy delivers milk in glass bottles instead of measuring it into the pitchers of housewives and serving-maids from barrels carried in milk wagons. Some competitors will soon follow suit. [1. Trager, James The New York Chronology: The Ultimate Compendium of Events, People, and Anecdotes from the Dutch to the Present. 2010: 191. New York: HarperCollins.]

I’m wondering where the author found this information, but I have resisted the urge to go looking.

 

9. April 2015 by Gilded Hour research / resources

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My name is Rosina Lippi. I'm a former academic and tenured university professor,  writing full time since 2000. Under the pen name Sara Donati I am the author of the Wilderness series, six historical novels that follow the fortunes of a group of families living in upstate New York from about 1792-1825. A new series based on later generations of the same families was launched September 1, 2015 with The Gilded Hour. The next volume in the new series,  Where the Light Enters, was  released in 2019.

 

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