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Greetings From Monroe, Wis.

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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...
Photograph

Severtson Swiss Cheese Factory

Date: 1947
Description: Exterior of the Severtson Swiss Cheese Factory.
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Monroe Country Club

Date: 10 05 1928
Description: A groundskeeper uses a Fairway tractor to care for the rough of the Monroe Country Club golf course while a group of golfers plays in the background.
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Aerial View of Monroe

Date: 01 30 1949
Description: Aerial view of town, with a large building on a town square in the center. The edges of town are bordered by fields and farms.
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Prairie House

Date: 1925
Description: Clothes dry on a line behind the Prairie House Inn north of Monroe. The house has an exposed stone lower level and a porch wrapping around the two sides w...
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Chalet Cheese Co-op

Date: 1968
Description: A dairy truck is under an awning at a cheese factory. A sign near the top of the two-story building reads: "Chalet Cheese Co-Op." Field crops are growing b...
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Cheese Factory

Date: 07 1936
Description: View across harvested field shocks of grain towards the long, two-story brick Carl Marty & Co. factory, featuring a large smokestack and a water tower. The...
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Threshing with a Steam Tractor

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Description: Stereograph of farmers using a thresher powered by a steam driven tractor. Church steeples of Monroe are on the horizon on the left. Hand-written on revers...
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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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