The Waukesha Mineral Product Company operated in the Dairy Stock Pavilion, the hub of dairy related activity, at 921 Barstow St. It produced feed for cattle, hogs, and poultry. Mineral feed, or fortified feed, was given to livestock in addition to…
These fluted aluminum molds were promotional items for “Jiffy Jell,” the flagship products of the Waukesha Pure Food Company. The molds, which were available in various shapes, were offered, for a nominal shipping fee, in a national promotion…
The Sunlite Dessert Company manufactured gelatin products for institutions, hotels and hospitals. It went on to produce ice cream mixes and pectin products for making jams and jellies.
The company began in 1922 under the name Waukesha Jelly Powder…
These 25 pound tins contained HEMO plain and chocolate flavor malted milk made by the Thompson’s Malted Milk Company. Other products included Malted Food (dietary supplement for growing children), Malted Beef Peptone, Hemo Malted Milk, and Double…
Waukesha was once home to Wisconsin’s state chick hatchery. Brothers, Frank and Herbert Kramer began raising chicks as young men, when their father served as superintendent of the Hoard’s Dairyman experimental farm in Fort Atkinson.
Relocating to…
This red rubber ball was a promotional item for the Crown Dairy Supply Company located at 324 W. College Ave., the previous location of the Clysmic Spring bottling plant. E.B. Schurts founded Crown Dairy in 1943, later working with Frank Ruhling to…