Object Record
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Metadata
Accession number |
1988.155 |
Object Identification Number |
1988.155.012b |
Object Name |
Insert |
Donor |
Jensen, Howard and Nancy and Mary Alice |
Description |
Insert for a metal cream/milk crate. Has 20 openings for bottles to fit through. Each slat is flat, thin metal and create a sort of grid-like appearance. |
Dimensions |
H-2.75 W-12.75 L-16 inches |
Year Range From |
1925 |
Year Range To |
1945 |
Place Of Origin |
likely USA |
Owned By |
Jensen, Howard K./Jensen, Chris/ |
Used By |
Locust Lane Dairy |
Material |
Metal |
Associated People |
Jensen, Howard K. Jensen, Chris |
Search Terms |
Jensen, Howard K. Jensen, Chris Locust Lane Dairy dairy Omaha, Nebraska milking |
Provenance |
The milk crate likely held cream bottles at Locust Lane Dairy in Irvington, Nebraska. Metal crates like this were used at Locust Lane Dairy in Irvington, Nebraska until the middle or late 1930s when Chris Jensen acquired wooden crates. The donors are siblings, and the children of Chris and Minnie Jensen of Omaha, NE. The Jensen's ran the Locust Lane Dairy. Eagle Dairy located at 2526 South 42nd Street, presumably in Omaha, NE, was owned by Peter "Mule Pete" Jensen and his wife Mary. One of their children was Chris, the donor's father. Eagle Dairy was broken up and sold in 1912. After changing hands and locations a few times, the business was sold to Chris and he relocated it to 1906 S. 60th Street, Omaha. In 1914, the Omaha Health Department listing of licensed dairies noted three Eagle Dairies--Chris Jensen, Eagle #1; John Christensen, Eagle #2; and Pete Jensen, Eagle #3. Pete had gone back in business again. Chris continued the dairy at 1906 S. 60th Street until 1920. He later had Locust Lane Dairy and John had Maywood Dairy. He sold out Locust Lane in 1945, and continued to milk cows until his death in 1952. Chris had immigrated to the U.S. in 1904. He worked for other dairies for a time. He met Minnie, his future wife, while both worked at Anton P. Grobeck's Spring Lake Park Dairy at 1708 Van Camp (likely in Omaha). Minnie had immigrated in 1892. She died in 1967 at the couple's Irvington farm home. Chris Jensen dairies (all Omaha except last one): -Riverside Dairy, 35th and SE corner of M Street, 1910-11 -Chris Jensen, 64th and Redick (north side), 1912-13 -Eagle Dairy, 1906 S. 60th, 1913-1920 -Walnut Hill Dairy, 2132 S. 42nd Street and 4602 Center, 1920-25 -Locust Lane Dairy, 90th Street (north of Military) in Irvington, 1925-45 |
Images |
207\1988155012b.JPG |
Date Received by Museum |
1988 |