Title:
White Cliff Elementary's First Grade Class,1929
Photographer:
Elliot L. Fisher
Description:
Miss Mabel Gilbert's first graders pose with small bottles of milk, having just returned from a field trip to Ernie and Lina Anderes' Model Dairy. Too wet to grow hay or grain, all feed had to be shipped into Ketchikan. A longshoreman strike in 1952 caused feed supplies to be depleted, effectively forcing local dairies to close and ending the supply of fresh milk.
The Model Dairy was just south of Saxman, on the seaward side of Tongass Avenue. It was started by Ernie and Lina Anderes in 1925, and operated until 1931, when it merged with the Ketchikan Dairy, owned by Ernie's brother, Walter. The combined operation was called the Crystal Dairy. After the mid 1930s, the Model Dairy site was used for a mink farm, then a fox farming operation. Today, it is used as an equipment storage and maintenance facility by Southeast Stevedoring.
The Model Dairy was just south of Saxman, on the seaward side of Tongass Avenue. It was started by Ernie and Lina Anderes in 1925, and operated until 1931, when it merged with the Ketchikan Dairy, owned by Ernie's brother, Walter. The combined operation was called the Crystal Dairy. After the mid 1930s, the Model Dairy site was used for a mink farm, then a fox farming operation. Today, it is used as an equipment storage and maintenance facility by Southeast Stevedoring.
Collection:
Ketchikan Museums: Tongass Historical Society Collection, THS 61.8.1.274
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White Cliff school
White Cliff school