Butter Sculpture of a young boy trying to get a calf to nurse

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Title

Butter Sculpture of a young boy trying to get a calf to nurse

Subject

Butter Sculpture from the 1911 World's Fair

Description

The 1911 Iowa State Fair featured John K. Daniels’s butter sculpture of a boy trying to get a calf to nurse. Visitors were given a souvenir postcard advertising the Beatrice Creamery Company, the sponsor of the display. Photo from author’s collection.

Creator

John K. Daniels

Source

Beatrice Creamery Company

Publisher

The Heavy Table

Date

1911

Identifier

http://heavytable.com/legends-butter-sculpture/

Files

butter-cow-sculpture.jpg

Citation

John K. Daniels, “Butter Sculpture of a young boy trying to get a calf to nurse,” Materiality and Spectacle in Nineteenth Century United States 2017, accessed December 1, 2025, https://ds-omeka.haverford.edu/materiality/items/show/93.