Name/Title
Golden Eagle Swiss Dairy quart bottle, early 1900sEntry/Object ID
2024.39.1Description
Acc. No. 24.39.1
Subject Category: Businesses of Alameda, Dairies and Creameries
Date or Period: early 1900s
Object: bottle
Description: 1/4 pint dairy bottle, with raised lettering in circular-like label stating "Golden Eagle Swiss Dairy on the rim, with in the center: 2521 Lincoln Ave., Alameda". Bottle appears to have no seams, so hand-blown, not cast, suggesting an early date. Some large bubbles are visible.
Size: L-2.125 x W-3.75 inches.
History of Object: 1/4 pint dairy bottle, likely for cream. Golden Eagle Swiss Dairy was located at 2521 Lincoln Ave. Joseph Bauhofer, an immigrant from the Uri district in Switzerland, opened this dairy in 1903 or 1906, which grew to eight horses and four milk routes, and which eventually sold to Borden Company (which in turn was shut down in 2001). In 1921 the family bought in with the Innes Dairy on the 130-acre Chadbourne Ranch that later became the Williams Ranch in Fremont, and renamed it Cloverdale Creamery. Three generations of the family ran the business, until it closed for the last time in 2001.
Acquired from: unknown
Donation Date: before 2019
Catalog Date: 5/3/2024
