From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
Borden Milk Plant, Edmeston, N.Y. 11
Image of a large facility located beside a rail line and freight station. The image offers an encompassing view of the Borden Company's Edmeston milk plant around the time the dairy was poised for its meteroritic expansion into, by 1930, "...the largest distributor of fluid milk...in the country", producing ice cream and cheese as well as myriad other dairy products. Here the Edmeston plant in central NY state is served by a rail line for easy shipment of raw and finished dairy products. The milk plant is a modern, well-ventilated structure for the time, likely recently built, with auxiliary buildings including a freight station along the railing. The specifically designed complex, labeled "Borden's Country Bottled Milk", reflects the growing scale of the industry at the time, and a customer base for whom "country" products was thought to be important. This is part of a series of images made by one of the three Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company photographers assigned to New England or upstate New York. The glass plates would be sent back to Belfast, Maine, and processed into postcards at the printing plant on High Street.
