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Dipping the Curd

Date: 1914
Description: A worker at the Jorden Cheese factory dips curd to make swiss cheese.
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Hooping the Curd

Date: 1914
Description: Workers hooping the curd to make cheddar cheese at the Plymouth Cheese factory.
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Pressing Curd

Date: 1941
Description: Two men pressing the curd into a form at the Swiss Cheese Factory.
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Cheese in Storage

Date: 1952
Description: Cheesemaker standing on ladder putting cheese on storage shelf, along with rows of other cheeses.
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Barron Coop Creamery

Date: 1900
Description: Two men pose at the Barron Coop Creamery next to the churns full of butter, which is ready to be packed into the small barrels nearby.
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Milking on the Greene Farm

Date: 
Description: Barn interior on the Greene Farm with cows in stalls, with one man milking a cow, and another man standing and holding a bucket and milking stool.
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Waiting For Pure Fresh Milk

Date: 1889
Description: Stereograph of a posed scene showing a woman milking a cow as two other women stand waiting at an open barn door. On the left a man at a hand-pump is behin...
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Rolla B. Shurfelt Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Barnyard scene on the Rollo Shurfelt farm with people milking the cows. Several horses are in the yard as well.
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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.
Print

Horlick's Food Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Horlick's Food Company of Racine, Wisconsin, from the 1890s, showing the Horlick's factory, a dairy maid with a cow and a container of Ho...
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Milking the Cows

Date: 1929
Description: A woman runs the milking operation at the G.L. Hamon dairy farm.
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

Date: 
Description: Composite of four images of Hatchville, including E.D. Karnes store and the Co-Operative Creamery.
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Loading Milk Cans

Date: 1937
Description: A man unloads milk cans from a Ford Model T pickup truck at a creamery receiving station.
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Cheese Factory

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

Greetings From Monroe, Wis.

Date: 
Description: A postcard with the text "Greetings From Monroe, Wis.," as well as images including postcard views of Wisconsin's pioneer cheese maker Niklaus Gerber, a co...
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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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Swiss Man Making Cheese

Date: 
Description: A man wearing Swiss clothing making cheese in Switzerland.
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Jorden Prairie Cheese Factory

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Description: Interior view of the Jorden Prairie Cheese Factory showing Swiss cheese presses on a bench.
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Alice in Dairyland

Date: 10 1968
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Bobbie Thoreson, holding a platter of cheese, poses with four men at the World Food Expo.

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