Wine bottle. Brown glass, shallow pontil, seamed shoulder and neck. Cork with red wax to seal mouth. Wine inside almost to shoulder level. Found by volunteers sometime during the early years of the James Buchanan Foundation. Bottle was found in the east end of the basement level in the Wheatland mansion.
Wooden souvenir whistle with pasted paper band around body printed with "I am blowing for / Ideal Hygrade / Milk and Ice Cream / Ideal Milk Products Co. / Lancaster, PA"
Provenance
Donor states that on Jan. 1, 1929, York Sanitary Milk Co., Lancaster Sanitary Milk Co. and Ideal Milk Products Co. combined to form Penn Dairies.
Cardboard paddle in footprint shape has two flaps of pressed, colored paper in the form of a hatted frog, stapled to opposite sides. Makes clapping sound when shaken.
One side, on handle section is printed: "I AM CLAPPING / FOR / IDEAL ICE CREAM."
Dimensional frog heads are stamped: "Germany"
Provenance
Donor states that on Jan. 1, 1929, York Sanitary Milk Co., Lancaster Sanitary Milk Co. and Ideal Milk Products Co. combined to form Penn Dairies.
Overall soil and wear. Ink stains on both side of paddle. Considerable wear on both paddle and frog image, especially at top of hat and at bottom of paddle handle, resulting in partial loss of printed message.
Milk delivery wagons, horses and drivers used for daily home delivery for Sanitary Dairy Milk Company line up at 572 North Queen Street. This dairy later became Pensupreme Dairy.
Purity Ice Cream delivery trucks used to deliver ice cream to grocery stores and Lancaster soda fountains. Loading platform at 572 North Queen Street now site of YMCA.
Home deliveries in 1923 were made by J. Paul Bowman, left, and John Eberly from a wagon drawn by "Charlie", shown at Lancaster Sanitary Dairy, later Penn Dairies, plant at Prince and Frederick Streets where the YMCA now stands.
