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ELSIE BORDEN COW & SON dairy FAMOUS COWDILLAC TOUR HAULER TRUCK vtg Postcard A45UNUSED UNPOSTED VINTAGE chrome UNP VTG semi truckElsie the CowAdd languagesToolsFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaElsie the CowElsie in a 1948 adFirst appearance1936; 87years agoCreated byBorden, Inc.Based onCowIn-universe informationNationalityAmerican

Elsie the Cowis acartooncowdeveloped as amascotfor theBorden Dairy Companyin 1936 to symbolize the \"perfect dairy product\".[1]Since the demise of Borden in the mid-1990s, the character has continued to be used in the same capacity for the company\'s partial successors,Eagle Family Foods(owned byJ.M. Smucker) andBorden Dairy.

Named one of the Top 10 Advertising Icons of the [20th] Century byAd Agein 2000,[2]Elsie the Cow has been among the most recognizable product logos in the United States and Canada.[3][4]

History[edit]

The cartoon Elsie was created in 1936[5]by a team headed by advertising creative director David William Reid.[6]Elsie first appeared as one of four cartoon cows (with Mrs. Blossom, Bessie, and Clara) in a 1936 magazine advertisement series featured in medical journals.[7]By 1939, she was featured in her own advertisement campaign that was voted \"best of the year\" by the Jury of the 1939 Annual Advertising Awards.[8]

Elsie the Cow in aBordenadvertisement, 1940

The first living Elsie was a registeredJerseyheiferselected while participating in Borden\'s1939 New York World\'s Fair\"Rotolactor\" exhibit (demonstrating the company\'s invention, therotary milking parlor). The most alert cow at the demonstration, she was born at Elm Hill Farm inBrookfield,Massachusettsand named \"You\'ll Do, Lobelia\".[9]After being purchased from her owners, family farmers from Connecticut, she spent the rest of the season on display twice each day dressed in an embroidered green blanket,[10]and after the exhibit, she traveled around the country making public appearances.[11]You\'ll Do, Lobelia is buried at her home in the Walker-Gordon Farm inPlainsboro,New Jersey. Her tomb stone is marked with the fitting title of \"one of the great Elsies of our time.\'\'[12]

Elsie had a fictional, cartoon mate, Elmer the Bull, who was created in 1940 and lent to Borden\'s then chemical-division as the mascot forElmer\'s Products.[7]The pair was given teenage offspring Beulah sometime before 1947, the year baby Beauregard arrived. Twins Larabee and Lobelia appeared in 1957.[5]

In 1940, the actual cow Elsie appeared in the film,Little Men,[13][11]as \"Buttercup\". For a time in the mid-1940s, the cartoon Elsie was voiced byHope Emerson.[14]Elsie and her cartoon calves were featured in Elsie\'s Boudoir atFreedomland U.S.A., atheme parkdepicting America\'s history located inThe Bronx, from 1960 to 1963. A live cow representing Elsie appeared on stage at the Borden\'s exhibit in the Better Living Pavilion at the1964 New York World\'s Fair, in a musical revue with ascoreby theBroadwaycomposerKay Swift.[15]

Elsie has been bestowed such tongue-in-cheekhonorary university degreesas Doctor of Bovinity,[6]Doctor of Human Kindness, and Doctor of Ecownomics.[citation needed]InWisconsin, home of the Dairy Princess, Elsie was named Queen of Dairyland.[citation needed]TheSeneca peoplenamed her an honorary chief,[citation needed]and the City ofBridgeport,Connecticutpresented her with theirP. T. BarnumAward of Showmanship.[citation needed]

Living version[edit]

The success of the character encouraged Borden to promote a real life version of Elsie, with the name \"You\'ll Do Lobelia\", being her appearance in 1939. This version of Elsie became a well-known.[16]being noted as \"the most famous icon in the U.S.\", ranking above The Campbell Soup Kids, the Marlboro Man, and The Jolly Green Giant.[17]

Lobelia died in 1941 after a traffic accident, just two years after her rise to fame.[18]Her tombstone is at Plainsboro, NJ.[13]Since then, other \"Elsies\" took her place as Borden\'s spokescow.[19]

Elsie and her bull calf son \"Beauregard\" made yearly appearances in the Food & Fiber Pavilion at theState Fair of Texasuntil retirement after their final fair in 2013.