Sealtest Dairy Products Uniform (Milkman's Hat)
notes: label: Description
content: This white hat was worn by an employee of Sealtest Dairy Products. It has a black, plastic visor with a black band above the visor.
label: Description
content: Sealtest Dairy is a Good Humor-Breyers brand for dairy products. Formerly a division of National Dairy Products Corporation (precursor to Kraft Foods) of Delaware, it produced milk, cream, ice cream, and lemonade.
label: Description
content: The Sealtest brand was also later used by various companies in Canada under license. Sealtest had milk and ice cream plants across the midwestern and northeastern part of the United States, with large operations in Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Huntington, Indiana, Rockford, Illinois, and Philadelphia, as well as New York City. It also had operations in the Mid-South, based out of Memphis, Tennessee.
label: Description
content: Sealtest Dairy Company was founded and operated by Vernon F. Hovey. After his death, the company was turned over to his two sons. They ran the business in the state of New York, before selling the business.
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content: The Sealtest brand was ultimately acquired from Kraft (along with Breyers) in 1993 by Unilever, which retains the underlying rights to the brand.
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content: Sealtest also sponsored an ice cream store at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida named Sealtest Ice Cream Parlor and Sealtest Ice Cream Wagon.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Occupations
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0115.04
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0115.04
label: accession number
content: 1992.0115
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hat, Milkman's
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 13 cm x 29 cm x 29 cm; 5 1/8 in x 11 7/16 in x 11 7/16 in