Washing 1,000 lbs. of Freshly Churned Butter, Cohocton, N. Y.

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Keystone View Company

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Creation Date

1905

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This lantern slide depicts freshly churned butter coming off an assembly line to be washed. The butter industry did not arise until the 1860s, originally being sold as a supplemental income for family farms. The industry was inspired by the innovation of cheese mass production a decade earlier, leading enterprising entrepreneurs to repurpose cheese mass production techniques for butter, made easier due to both being dairy products.

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