Sontheimer Dairy Farm Collection

Sontheimer Dairy Farm Collection

Box #1 (flat box):

Folder #1: 

  1. Photo of Mrs. Sontheimer milking a cow 
  2. “Sontheimer’s Dairy” card with directions to the farm on the back 
  3. Photo from the farm of man on horseback driving cows down a small dirt road
  4. Checkerboard News Newsletter, May-June 1950, with article about J. E. Sontheimer’s dairy farm (“Program Management Saved this herd”) on pages 6-7
  5. The Times-Picayune New Orleans States Magazine, December 18, 1949, with article about Sontheimer Dairy Farm  

Loose in Box: 

  1. “The Farm Properties of Jack Sontheimer, Hammond, LA,” map of the dairy farm drawn by Ruth Braunstein in 1953
  2. Photo of two dairy cows on the farm with six large silos in the background

3-D Artifacts: (located on book stack in Center) 

  • Ox yokeÂ