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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Egg Carton
Object Number
2017-11-10
Description
Egg Carton produced for Arethusa Farm, Litchfield, Conn. Tan egg carton made of molded paper pulp with hinged lid and 12 compartments. On top-left, printed blue text set in blue border, "ARETHUSA/ FARM/ LITCHFIELD, CONN. 06759/ PLEASE RETURN USABLE CARTONS", on top-right "FARM FRESH/ GRADE A LARGE/ EGGS/ ONE DOZEN".
Provenance
Collected by Art Webster, Arethusa Farm.
Comment
Charles Baldwin Webster purchased property on South Farms Road in 1868; his grandson, Ben Webster, bought a Guernsey herd and began selling surplus milk (some to Beach's creamery). The farm took over their own bottling and established a local delivery route, introducing electric milking machines in the 1920s. Art Webster, great-grandson of founder, took over the business. In the 1940s, a plant was installed for processing and bottling, and by the 1960s the farm was producing homogenized milk. The delivery route closed in 1978, after which the dairy continued to sell milk wholesale until the end of the decade. The herd was sold in 1981.
Maker
Date Made
1960-1980
Dimensions
Height 3", Width 4.25", Length 11.75".
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
