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
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.