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Filter: Year of 1950-1959
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | "This is a 1950 Studebaker. Critics dubbed it a 'two row corn picker!'" |
| Date: | 02 01 1959 |
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| Description: | "Train derailment. Photo taken from North Pole Road. Hwy 28 can be seen in the distance (left)." |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | "The Widmer milk truck gets bogged down in the Bill Breitag driveway, north of Theresa." |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | "Digging out the milk truck in the Breitag Road." |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | "A sled was used to convey the milk cans. Shown are Ralph Widmer, Bill Breitag, and Ken Reimer." |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | "This was an early bulk truck for picking up milk. The box had room for a whey tank, to return whey to the farm." |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of Shirley Widmer, the photographer's wife, digging out a snow-covered sidewalk. Caption: "Shirley Widmer digs out after a big snowstorm." |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Shirley Widmer, the photographer's wife, shoveling snow after a big snowstorm. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | "Leroy Koll picks up milk at the William Sellnow farm, located on Allen Road. Weight of the milk when can is full is 85 pounds. Weight of the can is an add... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | "Erhard Luhn comes to the cheese factory in a sleigh." |
| Date: | 03 01 1957 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with car driving down a road, seen from the back, with very tall trees on either side of the road. Caption: "The same road as on the opposite... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | "A time exposure recorded car head and tail lights." |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | "Guelig Construction workers put in a disposal system for Widmer Cheese Factory. Workers are from left, Ray Guelig, Herb Sellnow, Bob Guelig, Edgar Guelig,... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | "The long lens captures the Baker Canning smokestacks, and water tower, on film." |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | "Cows graze on the William Engman farm south of Theresa. The new water tower, at right, is being constructed." |
| Date: | 04 1951 |
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| Description: | "The wonderful old bridge." The bridge was built in 1874 by Frederick Fisher. |
| Date: | 11 19 1950 |
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| Description: | "Raccoon hunters, Fred Zastrow, & Alfred 'Butch' Muche, and their dog Ranger display some of their catch on a shed on Madison Road." |
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