-40%

Pint Embossed Milk Bottle BROWNS Dairy Products New Orleans RARE RARE!

$ 8.44

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Color: Clear
  • Time Period Manufactured: Modern (1900-Now)
  • Volume: Pint
  • Bottle Type: Milk
  • Modified Item: No
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Condition: Used
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

    Description

    Pint Embossed Milk Bottle from BROWN'S Dairy Products New Orleans.
    Listing is rare as I cannot find another like it anywhere online.
    It has a few scrapes but no cracks or chips.
    Circa 1950 I believe.
    There is a large B and a 28 or a 2B on the bottom.
    I've added the history below taken from the web. Thanks for looking.
    Economy shipping.
    'Brown’s Velvet Dairy was founded by Benjamin Christian Brown in 1905 and was family owned until 1993.
    Benjamin C. Brown was a native of Kingston, Ontario Canada and came to New Orleans in 1904. He established the Brown’s Velvet Ice Cream Company a year later in 1905. The firm started on St. Charles and Polymnia with a “10 galloon, old-timey ice cream freezer, one old gray mare and a wagon.” The business employed four people who cranked ice cream by hand using crushed ice and rock salt. They then moved to Terpsichore and St. Charles and then moved again to 400 block of Baronne. B.C Brown notes that “By that time we had two freezers and two wagons.” In 1915 they bought a lot on Baronne and Thalla and in 1917 added the brick portion of the plant. In 1950 Brown noted that their freezers held 25,000 gallons and the company produced 10,000 gallons of ice cream a day and was expanded to include the wholesale milk business. (November 23, 1950).
    In 1954 Brown’s Velvet Dairy released and announced a revolution in milk packaging: the new plastic coated twin milk containers, with a huge advertisement in the Time-Picayune on September 16, 1954.
    His two sons, Benjamin Temple Brown, Sr. and Alfred W. Brown were executives with the dairy products firm. Benjamin Temple Brown, Sr. died four years before his father; on April 28th 1963 at 62 years old. He was survived by his father, Benjamin C. Brown (President of the Company), his brother Alfred W. Brown, and his son Benjamin T. Brown, Jr. who was also associated with the company. In addition to his business career with the dairy, Benjamin. T. Brown was a veteran of World War I and played football for Tulane during 1919- 1922, where he graduated with a law degree in 1923.
    Benjamin C. Brown death was announced on January 16, 1967 in the Times-Picayunne. The Times-Picayune reported that his death was “the dame day on which the Louisiana Dairy Products Association Inc. – an organization that he founded- began its three-day 1967 meeting at the Roosevelt Hotel.” (January 16, 1967)
    His grandson, Alfred W. Brown Jr. served as vice-president and a director of Brown’s Velvet Ice Cream Inc. and Brown’s Velvet Dairy Products Inc. and took over a position as a board of director of the National American Bank of New Orleans that his grandfather had. (January 25, 1967). He served as vice-president of the company until he unexpectedly died in a plane crash reported by the Times-Picayune on August 19, 1977.
    In 2000 Brown’s Velvet Dairy (part of Suiza Foods) changed its name to Brown’s Dairy.
    In 2001 Brown’s Dairy became part of Dean Foods Southwest Division and in 2004 merged with Barbe’s Dairy, making Brown’s Dairy the only dairy in New Orleans. Brown’s Dairy is still located on Barrone Street.'
    brown's velvet dairy