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Launch of "This is Wisconsin" Booklet-State Map Surrounded by Wisconsin Grown Foods

Date: 03 29 1954
Description: Food from every food-producing county in the state and seventy-one candles - one for each county - frames a 25-foot long map of Wisconsin at the preview ev...
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Traditional Swiss Cheese Production at the West Middleton Cheese Cooperative

Date: 06 03 1954
Description: Cheese makers Alfred Abplanalp (right) and Bernard Cupp perform the old-time Swiss cheese making method of using cheese cloth to skim the curd from the top...
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Traditional Swiss Cheese Production at the West Middleton Cheese Cooperative

Date: 06 03 1954
Description: Cheese makers Bernard Cupp (right) and Alfred Abplanalp (left) completing the process of skimming curd from a vault of whey by lifting the cheese cloth bag...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Two nursery employees, Florance Dohm and Angeline Magnasco, examining a blooming plant among the tables full of blooming lilies ready for delivery inside a...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Faye Jorgensen is admiring the tall stems and white blossoms of the traditional Easter lily inside a greenhouse.
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City-County Canteen

Date: 08 21 1957
Description: Employees of the new City-County Building enjoying refreshments in the canteen. They are Walter Beck (left) and Jelmer Anderson.
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City-County Canteen

Date: 08 21 1957
Description: Employees of the new City-County Building enjoying refreshments in the canteen. Center, Dane County Sgt. A.M. Amble is talking with Patrolman, George Hughe...
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City-County Canteen

Date: 08 21 1957
Description: Employees of the new City-County Building enjoying refreshments in the canteen. Marion Burns (left) and Dorothy Gaukel visit at a standup coffee counter be...
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City-County Canteen

Date: 08 21 1957
Description: Employees of the new City-County Building enjoying refreshments in the canteen. Lloyd Harmon (left), operator of the canteen, is serving paper to-go cups t...
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Dr. John A. Schindler Family — Coffee Break

Date: 10 24 1957
Description: Portrait of Dr. John A. Schindler, Monroe physician and author, holding a coffee cup and saucer. Two of the books he wrote were How to Live 365 Days a Y...
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Six Young Farmers

Date: 01 28 1958
Description: A young man wearing a wool coat is carrying two pails across a snow-covered farm yard. In the background a dog is running to keep up, and icicles are hangi...
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Six Young Farmers

Date: 01 28 1958
Description: Portrait of Ann Rutlin. She grew up on a farm near Cottage Grove, graduated in 1957 from Wisconsin State College in Whitewater, and taught second and third...
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Six Young Farmers

Date: 01 28 1958
Description: Portrait of Phyllis Steinich Price. In 1957, she married James Price in 1957, a "tenant farmer near Lodi." She would graduate in June 1958 from the U.W. Sc...
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Six Young Farmers

Date: 01 28 1958
Description: Portrait of Stanley Shaw. He was attending the U.W. College of Agriculture's "short course."
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Six Young Farmers

Date: 01 28 1958
Description: Portrait of La Vern Reu. He was a junior at the U.W. College of Agriculture.
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Twila Nolen Given a Silver Dollar

Date: 06 26 1958
Description: Twila Nolen, a waitress at Rohde's Steak House, is shown after receiving her second silver dollar from the Madison Chamber of Commerce. It is part of a Jun...
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Children Walk Their Cows at the Dane County Junior Fair

Date: 07 17 1958
Description: Slightly elevated view of children parading their cows at the Dane County Junior Fair. Judy Hurlbut (15), Route 2, Verona, won the grand championship steer...
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Spraying in Maple Bluff for Dutch Elm Disease

Date: 11 01 1958
Description: All elm trees in Maple Bluff are sprayed for Dutch elm disease in accordance with the village's compulsory spraying ordinance. Charles Webster, 2740 Milwau...
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Annual Meeting of Wisconsin Cheese Makers' Association

Date: 11 04 1958
Description: The 67th annual meeting of the Wisconsin Cheese Makers' Association is held in Madison at the Hotel Loraine. The meeting included the 2nd annual World's Ch...
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City Leaf Vacuum Cleaner

Date: 10 30 1958
Description: Street gutter full of leaves about to be vacuumed up by three city workers operating a large two wheeled trailer-sized vacuum cleaner with a leaf hose nozz...

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