Jim-Pops Loc: Granbury, Texas

My Father-in-law used this box to deliver milk door to door in the 40's-50's. Box held 6 quarts of milk. I shot this over 50 times today trying to get the feel for its age. Kept moving my lights. Had lights over, under and side to side. The box was dark and had a flat look. Had the box centered but move it over because of the rule of 3rds. Not sure if that was necessary.

1946 Milk Delivery Box

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Violameister Loc: michigan

Whatever else you tried, this shot seems to have caught the effects you wanted. I really like it.

Regarding the crop: I would have put the box in the center, but then, I am an unreconstructed symmetricist and will put the focal point of the image off center only when I want the eye to move somewhere else after seeing the object.

Jim-Pops Loc: Granbury, Texas

Thank you I was wondering about the centering. I think I will go back and recenter it. I don't know how many people even know that this was the practice back then for getting your milk.

Mike D. Loc: Crowley County, CO.

I remember things like that Jim. My mother had milk delivered in glass bottles well into the 60's. The thing that changed her mind was the company went out of business.

And the big thing about the Rule of Thirds is knowing when to ignore it. Feel free to re-center. It is the star.

Jim-Pops Loc: Granbury, Texas

Thank You, Centered it is

Centered up

photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

My husband helped deliver milk when he was young.

dooragdragon Loc: Alma , Arkansas

Granddad had a small dairy which we hand milked the cows till he finally got a milking machine, we pasturized the milk and bottled it in the old glass milk bottles with a paper stopper untill they made the press on lids (paper of course) and also put it in the old metal milk cans and took it to the dairy for sale.
To this day I still won't drink store bought milk.
We also churned our own butter and cream and raised cows for sale and butchered for our own use ( aunt had hogs so that took care of the ham, pork and sausage) and the rest we raised in the garden and canned in the old mason jars with a pressure cooker.
Grand dad continued to raise a garden untill he passed in 1990 at the ripe young age of 99 .

warrior Loc: Paso Robles CA

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WAR10CK Loc: Blacklick, OH

Wow, that's a cool shot and story.

Millismote Loc: Massachusetts

I delivered milk as a boy in the 40's, we carried it in a wire frame container that held 6 quarts.

ebbote Loc: Hockley, Texas

Very good, really like it Jim.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

I really like the photo as is. As I was born in 1946 (that was a great year to be born) I well remember the milk man coming to the door with milk and cream. I lived in upstate NY dairy country where our friends had a dairy farm. My twin brother and I at 4-5 years old would, by ourselves, be sent up to an upper pasture each day to push the cows back to the milking barn. We were warned many times by the farmer not to push the cows too fast or the milk would not be good. Fortunately for us the cows never ran and knew exactly where their food was each night. Milk, SOOC, straight out of cow, was/is fantastic especially when the fatty cream is still there.

The farmer's wife would take the cream and pour it into an old fashioned butter churn and churn it until magically butter was made. These people as well as everyone else in town would harvest maple syrup sap in the fall and magically turn it into maple syrup, ribbon candy when boiled and poured over fresh snow on a cookie sheet and maple sugar candy. Those really were the days compared to today when most people even many adults think these foods come as with all foods just from a grocery store.

Dennis

Kingmapix Loc: Mesa, Arizona

Perfect capture! Its a treasure.

EoS_User Loc: Oshawa, Ontario Canada

Dennis, your statement as well as your avatar brought this to mind. There was a posting, I don't recall if it was here or not. In it a person made a statement about cruel and mean hunters out killing animals. Said you should just go to the store and buy it where it is made. I couldn't help but wonder where this person had been all their life.

snapitup Loc: Southwest Florida

My memories of delivered milk in glass jars in winter were of finding frozen milk rising to three inches above the capped containers. After defrosting, the milk tasted just fine. Thanks for the antique box and fond memories.