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Benewah Butter Wins First Prize at the Spokane Fair 1923
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| Accession #: | 2791.2 |
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| Title: | Benewah Butter Wins First Prize at the Spokane Fair 1923 |
| Object Type: | Sign, Advertising |
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| Physical Description: | Benewah Creamery butter promotional sign with hand painted letters (blue and black) on press board; see inscription field for details. |
| Description: | Benewah Creamery's butter won first prize at the 1923 Spokane Fair, and the company advertised the honor with this hand-lettered sign. The thriving creamery soon needed more retail outlets and constructed two distinctive, milk bottle-shaped buildings in 1935. Owner Paul Newport explained that the whimsical styles were "designed to build better men and women by making dairy products attractive to boys and girls." In 1950, a Benewah sales clerk posed for a photo at the milk bottle store on South Cedar Street - again advertising Benewah Butter. |
| Category: | History |
| Subjects/Topics/Concepts: |
Merchandising (Communication), Spokane Interstate Fair (Event->Conventions and Fairs)
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| Geographical Reference: | Spokane (Washington->Spokane County) |
| Dimensions: |
Object H x W 28 x 22 1/4"
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| Materials/Techniques: |
pasteboard (paper) (Material)
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| Marks/Inscription: |
Benewah Butter wins First Prize at the Spokane Fair 1923 You might be able to by butter as good as Beneway butter but you couldn't buy better at $1.00 a pound. We give our butter maker Mr. Tom Morgan due credit for winning the Blue Ribbon - he takes pride in making good butter every day in the year. Benewah Creamery Dairy Producers of real Merit Made Clean-Kept Clean-Sold Clean Is it any wonder we do a large volume of business?
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| Credit Line: | Gift of Marguerite Newport Rathbun, 1981 |
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