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Waiting For Pure Fresh Milk



Waiting For Pure Fresh Milk
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Title: Waiting For Pure Fresh Milk
Description: Stereograph of a posed scene showing a woman milking a cow as two other women wait. On the left a man at a hand pump hides behind a wall. He is smiling and appears to be adding water through a funnel into the woman's milk pail. Printed caption at foot, "Waiting for Pure Fresh Milk. Copyright 1889, by Littleton View Co." On the reverse, "Waiting for Pure Fresh Milk" is printed in six languages. "Chris Bing, Practical Painter" is stamped on the back.

Image ID: 4772
Creation
Date:
1889 
Creator
Name:
Littletown View Company Publishers, Littleton, N.H.
City, State: Littleton, New Hampshire
Collection
Name:
Stereograph Classified File
Genre: Photographs
Additional
Information:
Also known as a stereoview.
Subjects: Milk
Farmers
Pumping machinery
Dairy cattle
Dairying
Men
Outdoor photography
Women
Dresses
Barns
Work clothes
 

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Please Credit: Wisconsin Historical Society.

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