VernaculaR Circles.

A visual survey celebrating an honest, workhorse of commercial art: the milk cap.

Why milk caps?

Once a ubiquitous part of everyday life, mid-century milk caps are charming artifacts of nimbly-executed graphic design. They not only utilize energetic typography (as well as illustration), but do so while relying on both an economy of form and a limited color palette.

The artifacts.

Most of the caps here feature New England-area dairies, as they were indeed collected from antique shops or flea markets in New England. Others are farther-flung, sent in by friends, family, and design colleagues.

The project.

Vernacular Circles is a history rescue project put together from Midnight Umbrella. Learn more about the archive’s story as well as behind-the-scenes design process. Have a question? Feel free to drop us a line anytime.

Explore more.

Interested in exploring archives of similar advertising ephemera? We highly recommend the extensive digital collections of the Library of Congress, as well as the Field Notes Memo Book Archive, and Cardboard America. Check them out!

Vintage cream or milk bottle lid with text 'Dairy Products' and illustration of a milkman carrying a bottle. The text 'Sealon Hood Protected' is also visible, along with red graphic elements.
Vintage milk bottle cap from Hoover's Dairy Inc., featuring details about reduced fat milk with 2% milkfat. Includes text about added vitamins A and D, and pasteurization. The dairy is located in Sanborn, N.Y.
Green Spot fruit punch drink lid with ingredient list including water, sugar, and various fruit concentrates.
Shady Glen Dairy Farm egg nog label with red and green text, reads "John & Bernice Rieg, Egg Nog, Artificial Color & Flavor, Manchester, Conn."
Vintage milk bottle cap from Foremost Dairies Inc. Jacksonville, Florida. Features "Grade A Milk," pasteurized, with contact information.
Vintage milk bottle cap labeled "Probst Milk," featuring "Homogenized Vitamin D Milk" produced in Lawrenceburg and Aurora, Indiana. Includes contact information and vitamin content details.
Vintage Sudu Bros. Dairy Raw Milk bottle cap from White Haven, PA, featuring red and blue text.
Vintage milk bottle cap from Piasta Dairy in Webster, Massachusetts, featuring text that reads "Milk Pasteurized" on a red and white background.
Vintage Birchwoods Dairy milk cap from Westerly, Rhode Island, featuring text for pasteurized milk and a contact phone number.
Vintage milk bottle cap with text 'Grade A Raw Milk Brookside Redlands Dairy' in red and green.
Vintage cardboard milk bottle cap with illustration of a smiling delivery person, wearing a uniform, holding a milk bottle. The text reads, 'This is your usual product. We are temporarily out of our regular printed caps.' The design features green an
Vintage Willow Brook Dairy milk bottle cap with "Pasteurized Milk" text, "C.E. Leonard," and "West Bridgewater" details.
Vintage milk bottle cap for Elmer J. Buckman, featuring "State Tuberculin Tested Herd" and "Grade A Raw," from Amsterdam, N.Y.
A vintage circular label with text "This is your usual product. We are temporarily out of our regular caps," featuring an illustration of a person in uniform.
Vintage cardboard cap with "Butter Milk" written in blue font and blue geometric design on textured background.
Vintage Blue Hill Dairy milk bottle cap featuring a woman in traditional Dutch attire holding milk cans, with text promoting pasteurized milk from Ferndale Dairy.
Vintage pasteurized heavy cream cap with red text on white background.
Vintage milk bottle cap with the text 'Have you tried our homogenized milk?' and 'We carry a complete line of dairy products' in red lettering.
Vintage milk bottle cap with text "Tuberculin Tested Herd J.P. Serpa Pasteurized Milk" in yellow and black.
Vintage Roberti's Dairy light cream lid, Sandwich, Massachusetts, featuring text "Pasteurized Light Cream."
Vintage milk bottle cap from Sunlight Dairy Farm in Norfolk, MA featuring raw milk text and contact information for R.D. Brett & Son.
Vintage Hill View Dairy milk bottle cap from North Providence, Rhode Island, labeled as homogenized, pasteurized, and clarified.
Vintage bottle cap labeled "Wholesome Refreshing ESPI Orange Nip," with ingredients listed, including orange juice concentrate and citric acid.
Vintage milk bottle cap with blue text reading "Milk Pasteurized."
Green Spot Lemonade label with ingredients
Vintage milk bottle cap from Berkshire Dairy, featuring red text on a tan background. The cap states "Pasteurized & Bottled by Co-Op Dairy for Berkshire Dairy" with "Torrington, Conn" at the bottom and the phone number 8449. The word "Thursday" is pr
Vintage bottle cap with 'Nook Farm Dairy Green Spot Orange-ade' label, featuring 'lemon juice and color added' text.
Vintage Turnpike Dairy milk bottle cap with text indicating pasteurized milk processed at Melgren's Dairy, TB tested herd, Sutton, Massachusetts. Features cow illustration.
Vintage milk cap with "Golden Dawn Milk Pasteurized" and "White Bros." text
Vintage milk bottle cap from Sholtis Dairy, labeled pasteurized milk, Saturday, Thomaston, Conn.
Label for fresh apple cider with instructions to keep cool and shake well before serving, featuring an image of apples.
Vintage Golden Guernsey milk bottle cap with yellow branding and design featuring a milk jug illustration.
Vintage milk bottle cap from Foremost Dairies Inc., Jacksonville, Florida, featuring text "Produced in Florida," "Grade A Milk," "Pasteurized," and contact information.
Vintage milk bottle cap featuring the text "Golden Dawn Milk" and "White Bros." with mentions of "Pasteurized" and "Tuberculin Tested."
Vintage Meredith Inn Dairy orange drink label from Delhi, N.Y., featuring an orange graphic and colorful text.
Vintage circular milk bottle cap with "M. Ykema Home Dairy Milk Purity Guaranteed" text and decorative design.
Vintage label from Blacker Bros Maplewood Dairy in Norwich, Connecticut, for heavy cream, featuring red text and graphics on a circular beige background.
Vintage light cream bottle cap with "LIGHT CREAM" text in blue.
Vintage Probst buttermilk bottle cap with red and green text, including "Probst Milk Co." and "Buttermilk," with locations "Lawrenceburg" and "Aurora, Ind."
Round vintage milk bottle cap with "Sunrise Dairy Farm Whipping Cream" text, featuring a red illustration of a cow, calf, sunrise, and barn.
Pleasant View Dairy heavy cream pasteurized label with red text on a beige background.
Vintage dairy product cap with text, "Dairy Products" and "Double Cap Protected with Sealon."
Vintage milk bottle cap labeled "Fat Free Milk, Pasteurized."
Vintage milk bottle cap with illustration, text reading "Ask our driver for a quart of our homogenized milk."
Vintage milk bottle cap with a red cow illustration and text "Pure Fresh Milk." Bottom text reads "Wash & Return Bottles Daily."
Vintage label reading 'V. F. Abbott Heavy Cream, Rumford, ME.' with a beige background and red and navy text.
Vintage Ray's Dairy milk bottle cap with text promoting pasteurized, homogenized Vitamin-D milk, 400 units.
Vintage Andersen Dairy milk bottle cap featuring "Grade A Raw Milk" text with contact number "Phone Sunset 312K2." Circular design with blue and orange text.
Vintage Mountain View Dairy chocolate milk label, emphasizing pasteurized high quality, from Waterbury, Connecticut, with 2% butterfat.
Vintage "Approved Milk" bottle cap with red text on a beige background.
Vintage Pillsbury's Dairy milk bottle cap with "Homogenized," "Pasteurized," and "Phillips, ME" text.
Vintage milk cap with text "PURE FRESH MILK" and "WASH & RETURN BOTTLES DAILY," featuring a red cow and green trees.
Vintage Borden's milk bottle cap with metal staple and "REG. U.S. PAT. OFF." text.
A vintage cap from A.C. Petersen Farms for fortified low-fat milk, featuring red and white colors. The text mentions nonfat milk solids, 400 U.S.P. units of Vitamin D, and specifies "homogenized-pasteurized." The cap highlights service and quality ov
Vintage buttermilk bottle cap with red text and border
Vintage milk bottle cap with "Pasteurized Homogenized Milk" text and green design.
Vintage heavy cream carton cap with "Pasteurized Heavy Cream" in red text.
Vintage milk bottle cap from Kunkel Farms, Orwigsburg, PA, featuring a red and white checkered design and labels indicating pasteurized and homogenized milk.
Vintage Pillsbury's Dairy milk cap with red and black text, featuring phrases like "Homogenized," "Pasteurized," and "Phillips, ME."
Vintage Holland Dairy milk cap with text indicating pasteurized, homogenized Vitamin-D milk from Oriskany, NY.
Vintage Whiteholm Farm heavy cream label with red border and text "PASTEURIZED."
Cole Farm Dairy milk bottle cap with blue and red text advertising pasteurized, homogenized vitamin D milk. Includes contact information and instructions to open by lifting.
Bottle cap with red graphic of a running person holding a bottle and case, text "this is your USUAL PRODUCT."
Vintage milk bottle cap from Titcomb's Dairy, Farmington, labeled "Pasteurized Milk" with "Pull Here" tab.
Vintage milk bottle cap labeled "Willow Farm," featuring "Tested Guernsey Cows Milk," with contact info "Tel. 80-12 E.C. Haggett."
Vintage milk bottle cap labeled "Pure Natural Milk from Green Acres Farm," with "H. Thompson & Sons" and "Westbrook, ME."
Vintage milk bottle cap with the text "Wash & Return Bottles Daily" and "Raw Milk" printed in red.
Vintage Roberti's Dairy heavy cream label from Sandwich, Mass.
Vintage milk bottle cap from Petersen Farms, featuring "Grade A Milk," "Homogenized, Pasteurized," and "West Hartford, Conn." Text encircles the edge: "Over 50 Years Quality and Service."
Vintage bottle cap from J. Chrabaszcz, featuring the words "MILK RAW," "LIC. 10," and "WARE, MASS" printed in red and blue.
Vintage Hillcrest milk cap label reading 'Vitamin D Added, Standardized Milk, Pasteurized, Golden, Homogenized, Hillcrest, Worcester, Mass.'
Circular vintage label for pasteurized heavy cream, featuring red and green text and graphics.
Metal cap labeled with "Pasteurized Homogenized Milk" in English and Hebrew. The cap also features kosher certification, symbolized by a Star of David.
Label for "Green Spot Grape Drink" showing ingredients: water, sugar, concentrated grape juice, citric acid, grape juice essence, natural flavors, artificial coloring, and potassium sorbate preservative.
Vintage bottle cap from Chatfield Dairy in Seymour, Connecticut, reading "Chocolate Flavored Milk, Not Less Than 2% B.F." with an image of a cow's head.
Vintage Danzeisen Cottage Cheese label with red text on a white background. The text reads: "Eat Danzeisen Cottage Cheese."
Vintage Elm Dale Farm pasteurized milk bottle cap with red and green text featuring "A.M. Knightly Methuen," "Milk Pasteurized," and "Phones 2097 & 23198."
Vintage milk bottle cap from Hoover's Dairy Inc, featuring text "Pasteurized Milk Homogenized," plant number 36-5673, located in Sanborn, NY.
Retro orange drink bottle cap from Meredith Inn Dairy, Delhi, NY. Features an illustration of an orange slice and leaves.
Vintage milk bottle cap with "Milk Pasteurized Homogenized" text and red logo.
Vintage Hillyland Farm Dairy chocolate milk cap with 2% butterfat from Scotland, Connecticut.
Round vintage milk bottle cap labeled "Birchwoods Dairy" with phone number 3338, located in Westerly, R.I. The cap is for pasteurized milk and specifies delivery on Wednesday.
Vintage milk bottle cap with "MILK" text and retro design in red and purple.
Vintage light cream bottle cap with "Pasteurized Light Cream" printed in blue letters.
Vintage milk bottle cap with "Pearl McFarland Natural Milk" and "From T.B. & B.D. Tested Herd, Bar Harbor" text in red.
Vintage milk bottle cap from Alford Lake Jersey Farm, featuring text "MILK AND CREAM" in green and "ALFORD-LAKE JERSEY FARM" in red with a tree graphic.
Vintage milk bottle cap with a cartoon milkman illustration and a message stating "This is your usual product. We are temporarily out of our regular printed caps."
Vintage milk bottle cap from John A. Coggeshall, Norwich, Conn, advertising homogenized and pasteurized milk with Vitamin D.
Vintage milk bottle cap with "Evans Bros. Dairy," "Milk Pasteurized," and contact information from No. Attleboro.
Vintage McIrvin Dairy bottle cap for Krim-Ko chocolate-flavored, sweetened partially defatted milk with added tapioca and salt, pasteurized.
Vintage milk bottle cap for Roberts Jersey Dairy heavy cream, labeled as Grade A Pasteurized with an orange design and a phone number.
Vintage milk cap with "Crockery City Pasteurized Milk, 4% B.F. or Better, East Liverpool, Ohio" text in black on a yellow background with lightning bolt design.
Vintage milk bottle cap from Highland Park Dairy Co, Muskegon, Michigan, labeled Vita-Rich Fortified Skimmed Milk, pasteurized with added vitamins.
A collection of vintage round cardboard milk bottle caps with colorful designs and text for various dairy products.
Vintage milk bottle cap with "Ira D. Whitney" branding, featuring pasteurized, homogenized, and vitamin D modified milk from Stamford, Vermont.
Vintage milk bottle cap with text: Ayrshire Milk Pasteurized Homogenized, Wentworth Farms, License No. 55, Amherst, Mass.
Vintage heavy cream bottle cap with "Heavy Cream Pasteurized" label in red and green text, surrounded by green and white striped design.
Vintage yellow bottle cap with red text, labeled 'D.M. WATT & SONS, Pasteurized Heavy Cream, Watt Dairy Farm, Still River, Mass.'
Vintage milk bottle cap from John Rychlewski's Riverside Dairy Bar, Kirkwood, NY, labeled as Grade A pasteurized milk, with red border and yellow and black text.
Vintage lid from Midway Meadows orange drink showing product details and oranges graphic.
Vintage "Golden Dawn Milk" cap with "White Bros" branding, featuring orange and red text on a round, pressed paper lid with a red rim.
Vintage pasteurized milk bottle cap with red rim and text "PASTEURIZED MILK" printed in black.
Vintage milk bottle cap labeled "H. L. Hall Grade A Milk Pasteurized Homogenized," with "Phone 7881" and "Greenfield Center, N.Y."
Vintage milk bottle cap from Chatfield Dairy, labeled "Approved Milk Pasteurized," featuring a cow illustration and the location Seymour, Connecticut.
Vintage Goodwill Dairy milk bottle cap with red rim, featuring text "Pasteurized Milk" and location details "Hastings, Mich." with a phone number.
Vintage milk bottle cap from Laurel Heights Farm, Shelton, labeled "Approved Milk from Tuberculin Tested Cows" in red text.
Vintage milk bottle cap from Ira D. Whitney, advertising pasteurized milk with slogans "Quality & Service," located in Stamford, Vermont.
Vintage milk bottle cap with text "Thatcher Modified Milk Pasteurized Homogenized Vitamin D" and "Milton Mass."
Vintage milk bottle cap from Echo Farm, featuring a design with cows and a barn, labeled as pasteurized and approved milk from Mahannah, Bristol, Connecticut.
Vintage Woodland Dairy Farm chocolate milk bottle cap from Southboro, Massachusetts. Text includes "Chocolate Milk Beverage," "Pasteurized," "Made from Whole Milk."
Red and white vintage bottle cap with the text "Heavy Cream."
Vintage label with text 'Please Wash and Return Daily Raw Milk' in red letters.
Vintage label with red star, "Use our LIGHT CREAM for best results" text.
Vintage milk bottle cap with "Walker's Dairy Pure Raw Milk, Norway, ME." written on it, featuring a red border.
Vintage milk bottle cap labeled "Homogenized Modified Milk Pasteurized" and "Contains 400 U.S.P. Units of Vitamin D Per Qt."
Vintage heavy cream container lid, red and blue text on a white background, labeled "Heavy Cream Pasteurized."
Vintage milk bottle cap from Goodwill Dairy in Hastings, Michigan, labeled "Grade A," "Pasteurized," "Homogenized," with added "Vitamin D."
Vintage Sal. Scirpo & Sons milk bottle cap, featuring red and blue text stating "Pasteurized Milk," with Middletown, Conn. and "Monday" markings.
Vintage Mountain Dairy’s milk bottle cap featuring a cow logo, labeled "Best Buy Pasteurized Homogenized Vitamin D A Skimmed Milk Product," produced in Cobleskill, NY.
Vintage milk bottle cap from Fred J. Wood Dairy, labeled "Pasteurized Skimmed Milk" from Thomaston, Connecticut.
Vintage milk bottle cap labeled "Trilby Farm Dairy," indicating 3.7% standardized pasteurized milk, PH.LA 8800.
J. Pitas & Sons raw milk label
Vintage Nelson's Dairy milk bottle cap, Clinton, Maine, featuring "Pull Here" tab in orange and black text on beige background.
Vintage milk bottle cap from Gribler Dairy with text indicating Grade A homogenized, pasteurized, and standardized milk, with 3.5% butterfat or more. Includes a contact phone number."
Vintage button illustration with two men shaking hands; includes text 'Those Who Graduate Get First Choice!' in red lettering.
Vintage Gribler Dairy milk bottle cap with "Grade A Pasteurized Milk 3.5% B.F. or more" labeling from Van Wert, Ohio.
A vintage milk bottle cap with text 'Moncrief's Dairy', 'Pasteurized Milk', and 'Peterborough, Ont.' printed on it.
Vintage milk bottle cap labeled "Milk Raw Connecticut" with red and orange design.
Vintage Gribler Dairy coffee cream label with red text, featuring Grade A, pasteurized coffee cream with at least 20% fat content, and contact information for Van Wert, Ohio.
Vintage milk bottle cap from Tower Hill Dairy labeled "Pasteurized Milk," featuring text "Charlton Depot" and "Kenneth Steenburn."
Vintage St. Eustache cream bottle cap with 15% pasteurized cream label in French and English.
Vintage milk label with 'MILK,' 'PASTEURIZED,' and 'HOMOGENIZED' text in black and orange.
Vintage milk bottle cap with "J. E. Gribler Dairy, Van Wert, O." and "Chocolate Dairy Drink, 2% B.F."
Illustration of John Adams on a button with text "Our 2nd President, John Adams, 1797-1801."
Vintage milk bottle cap labeled "Cedar Crest Farms Pasteurized Homogenized Vitamin Fortified Milk," 400 U.S.P. units Vitamin D added per quart, by H.C. Lowing & Sons.
Vintage "Skim Milk" label with stylized text
Vintage Elmer-Loos-Dairy creamed cottage cheese lid from Harrison, Ohio, with red text on a beige background.
Commemorative pin with "1836" and text about Alamo battle, featuring a drawing of the Alamo and soldiers.
Round label from Starr Farms, Elkhart, Indiana, for pasteurized cottage cheese, featuring blue text and a wave design.
Vintage bottle cap with text "Purity Guaranteed" and instructions to "Please Wash & Return All Bottles Daily."
Vintage Pure Milk Company cap from Chillicothe, Ohio, with "4% B.F." indicating 4% butterfat, and "Pasteurized-Standardized."
Round political button featuring text "Our 4th President James Madison 1809-1817" with blue and red design featuring stars and stripes.
Vintage milk bottle cap with health message "A good health habit! Drink 3 glasses milk daily" in blue text.
Vintage milk cap promoting sleep benefits
Vintage pinback button with blue text reading "You never outgrow your need for milk!"
Land O'Lakes skim milk bottle cap featuring a logo with a person holding a product, and text promoting Farmers Co-op Creamery Association, Roseau, Minnesota.
Button featuring text "Our 11th President James K. Polk 1845-1849," with a blue illustration of a man and decorative stars and stripes.
Vintage Dewan Dairy chocolate milk bottle cap from Oneida, N.Y., marked pasteurized, with brown lettering on a beige background.
Vintage button featuring John Quincy Adams, labeling him as the 6th President of the United States, with his years in office, 1825–1829, displayed below his name. The button includes a stylized American flag design.
Vintage bottle cap for Jersey milk from Plain View Farm, Jenera, Ohio, featuring raw milk with 4% or more butterfat, standardized, TB and Bang tested.
Vintage milk cap with cow illustration and text "Pure Milk - For Your Protection - We Use Sealright Sanitary Service."
Vintage milk bottle cap with red text "Wash and Return Bottles Daily" and an illustration of a milk bottle with banners saying "Pure Fresh Milk."
Vintage circular milk bottle cap labeled "Love’s Delight Dairy," featuring "Guernsey Grade A Raw Milk," from New Martinsville, W.Va., authorized by Wetzel Co. Health Dept.
Vintage milk bottle cap labeled "Mike Traczyk Grade A Raw Milk, Perry, N.Y." with red text and design on a circular card.
Vintage coffee cream bottle cap with "Pasteurized Coffee Cream" text in red, featuring "W.M.H. Roberts & Sons, Inc." branding, and location marked as Indianapolis, Indiana.
Vintage Marcardin Farms milk bottle cap with "Purest Jersey Milk" and "Edgar Vaughan, Jr." text.
Vintage skim milk bottle cap with illustration of a smiling woman and text "Double Cap Protected with Seal-On."
Vintage milk bottle cap for Camarata Dairy featuring text "Grade A Raw Milk," "Dependable Service," "Guaranteed Milk," and a phone number "5021R" in blue and turquoise colors.
Vintage Model Dairy cream bottle cap label featuring text "Good Morning," "Model Dairy Pasteurized," "20% B.F. Cream," and "Chillicothe, Ohio. Dial 6966."
Illustration of Abraham Lincoln with the text "1865 President Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theatre, in Washington."
Vintage Probst Milk Co. buttermilk cap with red and green lettering, featuring "Lawrenceburg - Aurora, IND." and phone number "Aurora 224-J."
Illustration of George Washington with text "George Washington was elected the first President of the United States - 1789" on a vintage circular card.
Sticker with the text "From the collection of" above a silhouette of a cow standing on grass.
Vintage dairy bottle cap with "Drink Goat Milk" advertisement, promoting it as healthful and nourishing, from American Supply House in Columbia, Missouri.
Vintage Green Spot orange drink bottle cap with orange and white design, featuring text about ingredients such as water, sugar, and orange juice.
Illustration depicting the California Gold Rush of 1848, featuring a gold prospector leading a mule, with text explaining the historic gold discovery.
Vintage label for Harrison's Original Heart O'Orange from Milan Dairy, Milan, Illinois, featuring an orange graphic, text in orange and green, and ingredients including cane sugar.
Illustration of ships with text about the War of 1812 on a circular paper card.
Vintage Brookdale pasteurized milk cap with text in yellow and red, featuring Grade A homogenized milk from Sedalia, Missouri, bottled by Tullis-Hall Dairy Co. with phone number.
Vintage milk cap for Maier's pasteurized and homogenized milk with contact number, from Rochester, PA.
Vintage milk bottle cap with "Key-Ayr Farms Raw Ayrshire Milk" and illustration of a cow on a farm, labeled from St. Marys, PA.
Circular vintage paper token featuring a blue illustration of a colonial soldier and red text reading "1782." Accompanying blue text states "Great Britain agrees to independence of the colonies after a hard struggle in the Revolutionary War."
Round vintage milk bottle cap label from Dellinger Dairy Farm in Jeffersonville, Indiana, marked as Grade A raw Holstein milk.
Vintage holiday greetings card with circular design, featuring a red sun, green pine trees, and a landscape. Text reads "Holiday Greetings."
Vintage Gustafson's Vitamin D Milk cap with orange and red text, advertising Grade A pasteurized and homogenized milk with added Vitamin D. Location listed as Burlington, Iowa.
Cartoon milk carton with smiling face, red background with text "Drink the Protein Lift" and "MILT" with "Oregon" above it.
Vintage milk bottle cap with "Try our delicious chocolate milk" text and star graphic.
Vintage Probst Milk Co. cap with Krim-Ko chocolate flavored sweetened milk label, featuring added tapioca, in red and white.
Vintage milk bottle cap for Maple Hill Dairy's Grade A Raw Milk from Henderson, KY, featuring "Pure Jersey" and "R. R. Roberts."
Vintage milk bottle cap labeled 'Rolling Green Dairy' for pure raw milk, TB tested herd, Scottsburg & Austin, Indiana."
Vintage milk bottle cap from A.H. Sherwood, Avondale Farm, Lunenburg, Mass, featuring a cow illustration and text "We Need Our Bottles."
Vintage raw milk bottle cap with blue and black design.
Vintage H. Rang Dairy milk bottle cap with text and tree graphics.
Vintage milk bottle cap from Crèmerie St. Eustache featuring text in French and English, including "skim milk," "pasteurized," and the address in St. Eustache, Quebec.
Vintage label reading "Pasteurized Heavy Cream" with blue and red text on a circular background.
Vintage label for Palmer's Dairy Orange Nip, produced in E. Middlebury, Vermont, highlighting ingredients like orange juice concentrate and citric acid.
Vintage milk cap for Kentucky Acres Dairy featuring "Grade A Pasteurized Churned Buttermilk."
Vintage Blue Ribbon Creamery pasteurized milk cap featuring blue and red text with a ribbon design. The text includes "Phone 13," "St. Maries," and "Pasteurized Milk."
Vintage label for goat milk featuring a goat and farm illustration with an orange background.
Vintage cap for homogenized and pasteurized milk with red and blue text.
Circular vintage milk bottle cap with text reminding customers to wash and return bottles daily for purity, cleanliness, and quality guarantee, mentioning Sealright sanitary service.
Vintage milk bottle cap with "Pure Fresh Milk" text and a drawing of a cow head, instructing to wash and return bottles daily.
Round button featuring "OUR 13TH PRESIDENT MILLIARD FILLMORE 1850 – 1853" with a blue illustration of Fillmore's profile and a patriotic red and blue design with stars and stripes.
Illustration of a woman churning butter with the word 'Buttermilk' in blue.
Vintage cardboard milk bottle cap from Glenn's Farm Dairy, featuring red and blue text and graphics, including "raw milk" and contact details in Marienville, PA.
Vintage dairy bottle cap from Lever's Dairy featuring "Pasteurized" text and triangle logo with "Quality, Service, Satisfaction" slogans. Includes a phone number, "Tel. 365." Green and red design elements.
Vintage button with text promoting fresh cottage cheese.
A vintage milk bottle cap labeled "Meadowcrest Farm Milk Pasteurized" with text indicating it is distributed by H.S. Reid, Inc., located in Thompsonville, Connecticut. "Longmeadow, Mass." is also mentioned, with "Friday" noted near the bottom.
Vintage chocolate milk bottle cap with orange and brown design
Illustration of Independence Hall with text: "The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia 1776."
Vintage milk bottle cap from Notzke Bros. Dairy, labeled "Grade A Pasteurized Milk," with Peoria, Ill. location, featuring a farm scene illustration.
Vintage Weigel Dairy raw milk cap from Monaca, PA.
Vintage cardboard bottle cap from Austin Dairy, Bingham, Maine, labeled 'Dari Rich' and 'Chocolate Flavored Drink' on an orange background.
Vintage goat milk bottle cap with red and blue text promoting natural and nutritious goat milk, recommending it for coffee use.
A vintage bottle cap label from J. E. Gribler Dairy in Van Wert, Ohio, advertising pasteurized coffee cream with at least 20% fat content. The label includes a phone number and is printed in red text on a cream background.
Vintage Gribler Dairy pasteurized skim milk bottle cap label from Van Wert, Ohio, featuring retro typography.
Vintage Sealtest Milk bottle cap with red and white design, labeled "Arctic," "Sealtest Milk," and "Pasteurized, To Be Sold Before Friday."
Vintage milk bottle cap with "Fresh Raw Milk" text and reminder to return bottles.
Vintage Probst Milk Co. Krim-Ko milk bottle cap label featuring chocolate-flavored milk, pasteurized details, and Good Housekeeping guarantee seal. Location Lawrenceburg-Aurora, Indiana.
Round vintage token depicting the Louisiana Purchase with map outline, text 'The United States purchased Louisiana from France,' date '1803,' and a money stack illustration.
Vintage Lever's Dairy bottle cap with "Quality, Service, Satisfaction" triangle logo and phone number 565.
Vintage-style graphic of Santa Claus with "Season's Greetings" text.
A vintage circular milk bottle cap labeled "HALF & HALF" with a green and yellow design and an image of a creamer bowl.
Vintage Probst milk bottle cap featuring red and blue text advertising homogenized vitamin D milk with 400 USP vitamin units. Includes location details: Lawrenceburg and Aurora, Indiana. Circular design with cut-out for bottle opening.
Vintage milk bottle cap from Salem Maid Dairy, with a shield logo and text "All Star Dairy, Grade A Dairy Products, Salem, Ind."
Vintage LingerLight Dairy pure orange juice label, New Castle, PA, reconstituted.
Vintage milk bottle cap labeled "Austin's Dairy, Bingham, ME, Pasteurized Milk" with a drawing of a cow's head.
Vintage milk bottle cap labeled "Harry L. Green, Grade A Raw Milk, Tuberculin Blood Tested, Chester, N.Y."
Vintage Dari-O orange flavored drink lid with blue and orange text, illustration of a filled glass with a straw, and ingredient list at the bottom.
Vintage Medlyn's Dairy pasteurized light cream cap from Stony Creek, Connecticut. Features blue and yellow text and graphics.
Round vintage label for "Linger Light Dairy Lemon Drink" from New Castle, PA, featuring ingredients like concentrated lemon juice, lemon oil, and citric acid.
Vintage heavy cream bottle cap with a purple and red design, featuring a graphic of a mixer and the text 'HEAVY CREAM' and 'DOUBLE CAP PROTECTED WITH SEALON.'
Vintage label for light pasteurized cream with orange and black typography on a circular background.
Vintage Driscoll's Yantic Dairy milk cap with "Skimmed Milk Pasteurized" text and child illustration.
Vintage milk bottle cap from Wenepawin Farm, labeled "Non-Fat Milk Pasteurized" with "Hanks Bros." and "East Longmeadow, Mass."
Vintage disk with "1787" printed in red, featuring a blue illustration of delegates meeting around a table, and text describing the drafting of the United States Constitution.
Vintage Hillsdale Farm milk bottle cap with red and white design, labeled "Pasteurized Steam Sterilization," from Tamworth, N.H.
Vintage Nashville Dairy chocolate milk bottle cap with text "Nashville Dairy, Pasteurized Chocolate Milk, Dial – 2451" and an orange and brown design.
Vintage milk bottle cap from Lamring's Dairy, Fairlawn, NJ, promoting pasteurized milk processed on their farm.
Vintage Green Spot Orange Drink label from Everett & Thompson, Binghamton, NY. Includes ingredients: water, sugar, concentrated orange juice, citric acid, orange oil, certified food color.
Vintage Dewan Dairy Inc. orange drink bottle cap from Oneida, N.Y., featuring orange illustrations and text describing ingredients like concentrated orange juice and citric acid.
Vintage round milk bottle cap from Dewan Dairy Inc, Oneida, N.Y., featuring "Vitamin D Homogenized Pasteurized Grade A Milk" and "Contains 400 U.S.P. Units Vitamin D Per Quart."
Circular pin with a black graduation cap and orange text "Complete School Now, Earn More Later!"
Vintage button with the text 'Industry Needs High School Graduates' under a factory silhouette.
Vintage pinback button with text "Opportunity is as near as a high school diploma" and green diploma graphic.
Vintage seal for Zieminski Dairy, pasteurized milk, featuring orange and green colors with text 'Clean' and 'Fresh' from Adams, Mass.
Circular vintage label for Dewan Dairy Inc., featuring "Pasteurized Light Cream" text in red with "Oneida, N.Y." and a sunrise illustration.
Vintage milk bottle cap from Dewan Dairy Inc., Oneida, N.Y. featuring chocolate drink details, including pasteurized whole and skim milk, and chocolate syrup ingredients.
Round vintage buttermilk label with blue text 'Bomba Bros. Buttermilk, Seymour, Conn.' on a cream background.
Vintage milk bottle cap from Wm. Vinal's Dairy, featuring a woman holding a glass of milk. Text includes "Thomaston, ME" and "PASTEURIZED MILK."
Vintage milk bottle cap labeled "Cegelski Bruno, Grade B Raw, Rome, R.F.D. 3" in red and green text.
Vintage bottle cap with 'Raw Milk' label from Mountain-View Dairy, Wilmer Anglemyer & Sons, R.D. 1, Kunkletown, PA.
Vintage circular cap label for The Malone Dairy Inc. Light Cream, featuring yellow and black text, "Grade A Pasteurized," with contact details for Malone, N.Y.
Vintage label for Everett & Thompson pasteurized chocolate drink from Binghamton, N.Y., listing ingredients as whole milk, skim milk, and chocolate-flavored syrup.
Vintage milk bottle cap labeled "Serendipity Farm Guernsey Gold Raw Milk" featuring an illustration of a moose.
Vintage milk bottle cap labeled "F.H. McKillip Grade A Pasteurized Milk" with contact number and "Saranac Lake, N.Y."
Vintage pasteurized milk bottle cap with circular design
A vintage milk bottle cap labeled "Dewan Dairy Inc" featuring "Homogenized Grade A Pasteurized Milk," from Oneida, N.Y. with tuberculin tested information and plant number 31-8803.
Vintage Dewan Dairy milk bottle cap with "Grade A Pasteurized" text and "Golden Guernsey" logo, from Oneida, N.Y.
Vintage bottle cap for Bomba Bros. skimmed milk, pasteurized, Seymour, Connecticut.
Vintage paper cap from Scott Bros. Dairy in Pomona, California, featuring the Green Spot logo and the text "Orange Ade, Water, Orange Juice, Sugar, Citric Acid, Orange Oil, Artificial Color."
Vintage Roberts Jersey Dairy milk cap, featuring text 'Roberts Jersey Dairy', 'Grade A Pasteurized Milk', and 'New Hartford, N.Y.', with an illustration of barns and sunrise.
Vintage label for pasteurized skimmed milk from Marble Farms, Syracuse, NY, featuring an address at 1122 Grand Ave.
Vintage dairy cap from Green Vale Farm in Eastmanville, Michigan, labeled "Gerrit J. Buth," for chocolate flavored milk, pasteurized, Grade A.
Vintage label for Crockery City Pasteurized Whipping Cream from East Liverpool, Ohio, featuring a red and purple design with lightning bolt graphics indicating 32% butterfat.
Vintage yellow wax milk bottle cap with "Grade A Pasteurized Milk," "Dairy Dell Inc.," and "Saranac Lake N.Y." printed on it, featuring farm imagery.
Vintage milk bottle cap from Chappell Dairy, labeled "Approved Milk from Tuberculin Tested Cows," Salem, Conn.
Vintage milk bottle cap from H.F. Morrill, Concord, New Hampshire, labeled "Milk & Cream."
Vintage milk bottle cap with "C.L. Cripps, Camden, Maine, Pasteurized Non-Fat Milk" in red and green text, circular design with decorative lines.
Signor's Dairy milk cap with "Grade A Pasteurized", sunrise illustration, and "Keeseville, N.Y." text.
Vintage label for pasteurized heavy cream from Peters Dairy, Oriskany Falls, New York.
Vintage milk bottle cap labeled "Bomba Bros. Pasteurized Chocolate Approved Milk, Seymour, Conn."
Vintage French milk bottle cap with blue and red design, featuring text "Lait Frais et Pur," and phrases "Lavez et retournez les bouteilles" and "Qualité et propreté."
Vintage milk bottle cap with text "Murdock Farm Dairy Heavy Cream, Winchendon, Mass."
Vintage milk bottle cap for Pearl McFarland Natural Milk from a tested herd in Bar Harbor.
Vintage Norman's Dairy milk cap from Jewett City, Connecticut, labeled 'Approved Milk Pasteurized' with the day 'Sunday'.
Vintage Searles Dairy Farm heavy cream lid featuring a yellow and black design with a cow, barn, and tree illustration, labeled "J. Searles & Son, Brownville."
Vintage milk bottle cap labeled "Ray's Dairy Golden Premium Pasteurized Milk," featuring a red shield emblem and text, "Farm Fresh," with a contact number in Madison.
Vintage buttermilk bottle cap from "E.J. Kaemmer & Son" in Meriden, Connecticut, featuring retro typography and orange and green colors.
Circular label for Valley View Farms Fruit Punch with mountains, trees, and ingredients list.
Vintage Winona Dairy heavy cream bottle cap from Lebanon, NH, featuring yellow and green text with a retro design.
Vintage milk bottle cap showing 'Milk Pasteurized Homogenized' in black text on a yellow and white background.
Vintage milk bottle cap with text indicating "Ashton Dairy" Grade A milk, pasteurized and homogenized with Vitamin-D, from Petersburg, Virginia.
Vintage dairy bottle cap with "Highland Dairy," "Athol, Mass.," and "Pasteurized Heavy Cream" text.
Vintage Perry Dairy milk bottle cap labeled "Grade A Pasteurized Homogenized Milk," featuring a cow illustration and "Wyoming, N.Y." location.
Vintage paper lid for light pasteurized cream with orange and black design.
Vintage milk bottle cap with text 'Try Our... Skimmed Milk' in green letters.
Vintage milk bottle cap reading "Skimmed Milk, Michael's Dairy, New London, Conn."
Vintage green and white E.J. Kaemmer & Son pasteurized heavy cream bottle cap from Meriden, Connecticut.
Vintage bottle cap from Wayside Farm Dairy for pasteurized chocolate milk, featuring the name Janeczek Bros, location Conyngham, Drums, PA, and phone number SU 8-3723.
Vintage paper milk bottle cap labeled 'RAW MILK,' featuring words 'Healthful and Refreshing' in red, surrounded by 'Cooperate With Your Cooperative' in red.
Vintage Driscoll's Dairy paper milk bottle cap for imitation fruit punch, featuring a child illustration and product ingredients. Originates from Yantic, Connecticut.
Vintage milk bottle cap with text "Low Fat Milk," "Grade A Pasteurized," and "Homogenized."
Vintage milk bottle caps with various designs and text, including "Light Cream Pasteurized" and "Grade A Raw."

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