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Buckhorn Cheese Company

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Description: Exterior view of the Buckhorn Cheese Company plant. A sign painted on the exterior of the building reads: "Take One Home."
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Stamping Cheeses

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Description: A male worker in a cheese-making factory places a Wisconsin stamp on cheeses.
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Flipping Pancakes

Date: 06 11 1989
Description: Man flipping pancakes at "farm breakfast" as part of "June is Dairy Month" promotion in Washington County.
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Making Cheese

Date: 10 1929
Description: Corner of Swiss cheese-making room, showing a cheesemaker stirring ingredients in a copper kettle.
Postcard

Prairie Farm Creamery

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Description: Exterior of the Prairie Farm Creamery with horse-drawn wagons in front. Caption reads: "Prairie Farm Creamery, Pr. Farm, Wis."
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Four Views of Hatchville

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Description: Composite of four images of Hatchville, including E.D. Karnes store and the Co-Operative Creamery.
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Borden Company Loading Dock

Date: 08 1948
Description: Borden workers loading milk onto trucks at the Borden Company loading dock.
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Cheese Factory

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Description: Building thought to be a cheese factory, with workers and horse-drawn delivery wagons in the front.
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Weighing the Curd

Date: 11 07 1979
Description: Cheesemaker Laurel Ettien, measuring the weight of cheese curd after it was separated from the whey.
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Man with Provolone Cheese

Date: 06 05 1967
Description: Mike Cotch standing holding a provoloni with other shapes of provolone cheese including salomini, salame, and madget hanging from the ceiling at the Burnet...
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Swiss Man Making Cheese

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Description: A man wearing Swiss clothing making cheese in Switzerland.
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Farmers' Co-Operative Cheese Factory

Date: 1909
Description: Men with horses and wagons gathered outside the Faville Grove Farmers' Co-Operative Cheese Factory. A poster advertising the State Fair is pasted to the wa...
Postcard

Kirkpatrick Cheese Warehouse

Date: 1920
Description: Five men and one woman, possibly employees of the Kirkpatrick Cheese Factory, gathered in front of the factory building. A car is parked along the curb in ...
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Wisconsin Dairy Queen and her Court

Date: 08 27 1935
Description: Group portrait of Rose Rosandlich, from Granton, who was elected Dairy Queen in 1935, and her court. They are, from left to right: Harry [?], Bernice Wegne...
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Woman with Two Jersey Cows

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Description: An illustration of two jersey cows and a woman holding a milking pail. Text at bottom reads: Two Jersey Cows — Beauty and Jersey — The Property of the Illi...
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Alice in Dairyland at Frigo Cheese Co.

Date: 07 26 1960
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Joan Engh, watching as a man ties a provolone cheese.
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Wheels of Wisconsin Cheese

Date: 1948
Description: Wheels of cheese stacked for curing at a cheese factory.
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Cheese Making

Date: 1967
Description: A man is filling hoops with cheese curd and another man is placing the cloths in the hoops at the Stella Cheese Factory.

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