1950s Vintage PRAIRIE MAID Ice Cream Container S.D. Langenfeld Ice Cream

Description

One half gallon cardboard container of ice cream, Prairie Maid, Langenfeld Ice Cream Co., Mitchell, S.D. Looks like it would have held spumoni. Immaculate condition, never used. 1950s or earlier.
Langenfeld’s Ice Cream and Dairy was located in Watertown, from 1934 until they closed in 1966.
History of Langenfeld Ice Cream
Helene's grandfather, Matt Langenfeld, spent years working in creameries in the Midwest before opening his own in 1918. For the next 30 years he manufactured and sold Langenfeld's Ice Cream.
Around 1923 or 1924, Langenfeld entered into a partnership with his brother-in-law, Matt Neisen. They established the Marshall Ice Cream Company in Marshall, Minnesota, and sold dairy products under the Perfection Ice Cream label.
After Matt Langenfeld’s death in 1949, the Langenfeld heirs purchased the Neisen heirs’ interest in the Marshall Ice Cream Company. The ice cream was then labeled Langenfeld’s Perfection Ice Cream.
The Langenfeld family manufactured ice cream in Watertown and Mitchell, South Dakota and Marshall, Minnesota. They also had major distribution centers in Rapid City, Aberdeen, Pierre, and Gettysburg, South Dakota, and Montevideo, Minnesota.
In the early 1960’s, the family consolidated the ice cream manufacturing at the Mitchell plant. The Langenfeld’s Ice Cream company closed its doors in 1966. The family's legacy lives on today in the Redlin Amphitheater.