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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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Workers Paraffining Cheese

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Description: Workers paraffining cheese at the Sheboygan County Farmers' Coop cheese factory.
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Charles Pfeifer, Deutsche Apotheke (German Apothecary)

Date: 1888
Description: Charles Pfeifer stands on the entrance steps to the drugstore with his wife Emma Pfeifer, who holds a baby. Other children and adults pose with them.
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Pfeifer's Drugstore

Date: 1888
Description: Exterior view of Charles Pfeifer's Drugstore, founded in 1858. From left to right are Charles Pfeifer, Fred Pfeifer, Mrs. Adam Heeb, Fulda Pfeifer, Mrs. Ch...
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Mexican Migrant Workers

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: A Mexican woman and her six children are standing on the porch of the multiple-family housing provided to them by the pea cannery for which their husband a...
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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.
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Preparing Cheese Molds

Date: 10 1929
Description: A man gets brick molds ready as part of the process of making cheese at the Wisconsin Cheese Producers Federation.
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Albert Schwark

Date: 1913
Description: Albert Schwark posing in front of a horse-drawn carriage.
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Mullet River

Date: 1868
Description: A view taken from the elevation on the south side of the Mullet River.
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Smith Residence

Date: 1915
Description: View across yard towards the Horatio Nelson Smith residence.
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Indian Trail Marker, Plymouth, Wisconsin

Date: 1930
Description: An Indian trail marker erected "in honor of our pioneers". This trail later became the Plank Road between Sheboygan and Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The first h...
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Indian Trail Marker

Date: 1924
Description: An Indian trail marker erected "in honor of our pioneers". The trail later became the Plank Road between Sheboygan and Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The first ho...
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House on East Main Street

Date: 1963
Description: A house with a porch. An example of mid-nineteenth century architecture at 632 East Main Street.
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Aerial View of Plymouth

Date: 1955
Description: An aerial view of the town.
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Stassen's Campaign Bus

Date: 03 25 1952
Description: Presidential candidate Harold E. Stassen, standing by his campaign bus, beseiged by young autograph collectors. On January 29, Stassen, a former governor o...
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Ehle Monument

Date: 08 24 1925
Description: A very large cemetery monument with a female figure sculpture, inscribed with the name Ehle. There is a shed in the background. The Ehle family lived in ...
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Charles Pfeifer Float in Spanish American War Parade

Date: 1898
Description: View of a horse-drawn float decorated with banners and flags and rows of pharmaceuticals on shelves. Two costumed children are posing in the back. A large ...
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Mullet River

Date: 1940
Description: A young boy wearing knickers, high stockings and a jacket is watching two swans on the Mullet River. A bridge and the rear of commercial buildings are in t...
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Bleak November

Date: 1950
Description: View from shoreline towards two men in a canoe near Birch Point on Little Elkhart Lake. The day is overcast. Around the point is another man in a boat, and...
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Race at Road America

Date: 07 1983
Description: View from the stands of an automobile race at Road America near Elkhart Lake. Large striped tents are in the background on the right.

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