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Title
Sunlite Dessert box mix display
Subject
Agribusiness
Description
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 Company, with Fred Glidden (also connected to Jiffy Jell) as secretary and treasurer. It moved to several locations before opening a plant at 212 Cutler St. The site featured an automatic packing machine that produced 38 boxes of mix per minute.
Products included Sunlite: Gelatin Dessert Powder, Quick Freeze, Pudding and Pie Mixture, Ice Cream Powder, Quixy (a pectin product for jams and jellies), and Ruth Fenner’s. Ruth, whose husband John was president of Sunlite until 1949, became a brand-woman for the company. She is seen in the image at right with this same display of Sunlite Dessert Boxes.
Donor: John Reese
Adopt an Artifact Sponsor: Chef Jack's Catering
The company began in 1922 under the name Waukesha Jelly Powder Company, with Fred Glidden (also connected to Jiffy Jell) as secretary and treasurer. It moved to several locations before opening a plant at 212 Cutler St. The site featured an automatic packing machine that produced 38 boxes of mix per minute.
Products included Sunlite: Gelatin Dessert Powder, Quick Freeze, Pudding and Pie Mixture, Ice Cream Powder, Quixy (a pectin product for jams and jellies), and Ruth Fenner’s. Ruth, whose husband John was president of Sunlite until 1949, became a brand-woman for the company. She is seen in the image at right with this same display of Sunlite Dessert Boxes.
Donor: John Reese
Adopt an Artifact Sponsor: Chef Jack's Catering
Creator
Sunlite Dessert Company
Publisher
Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum
Date
1940-1950
Rights
Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum