Forty-five glass slides of photographs of British nineteen-twenties dairy production.

All forty-five slides bound in 8 cm glass squares, with the black and white images themselves in good condition and unfaded. The slides, apparently from a newspaper picture library, all carry the label 'M57 637.1 Box 286', and are almost all captioned in manuscript. A good range of photographs, apparently taken in the nineteen-twenties. Includes images of Mottingham and Kidbrooke Farms, as well as of the Dairy Supply Company, Wootton Bassett, as well as group photographs of the Loughton's Young Farmers Club; the First British Friesian Calf Club, Heathfield, Sussex (with calves); the Jersey Calf Club, Southern Sussex; the First Boys and Girls Club, Hemyock, taking calves home; and the Young Farmer's Club, weighing in heifers; as well as of the champion cow, 'Sheldrake Goodness', Hayward's Heath. Also images of theLondon can stores; the United Dairy Company's pipe inspector; a 'Foamfiller' milking pail lid; inside Hookers Malted Milk factory; a large collection of pails lining railway track, with sign 'United Dairies, Glass Lined Tank Service'; a female employee of Manor Farm Dairy, East Finchley, with pony and cart, delivering milk; milk receiving, on truck of United Dairies Wholesale Ltd; road tank, 1200 gallons, of United Dairies (Wholesale) Ltd, Tank Service; Cow and calf, 'Lyne Gossamer IV'. Also included are depictions of cows at pasture (short horns, Mottingham calves, herdsman with cow), and of the various processes and facilities: inspector testing for sediment, receiving milk at large country creamery, loading bottles into washing machine, tipping milk, weighing, laundry, cold storage, analytical laboratory, boiler house, clarifying milk, cold store room, laboratory testing, refrigerating plant, laboratory using microscope, bottling cooled milk on farm, three cold milk storage tanks, making ice block (100 tons daily); refrigerating plant ammonia condensers. The one photograph not of British origin is of an air brush milk bottle washer, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.