Delivery wagon:Milk Delivery Wagon

At the turn of the 20th century and before the advent of the electric refrigerator and the supermarket, milkmen traveled the streets of American towns in horse-drawn wagons, delivering milk daily because it would have spoiled without proper refrigeration. Milkmen continued to make deliveries into the 1960s, when new technology made them obsolete. This toy, a product of the A. Schoenhut Company of Philadelphia, represents an early 20th-century milk wagon, complete with a horse, a milkman, and miniature milk bottles. Schoenhut produced at least 13 such wagons, painted with the logos of operating milk and bread companies of the time.