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| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Dr. Stephen Babcock with an electric centrifuge butterfat tester. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for D.M. Osborne & Co. harvesting machines showing three old men. Two of the men appear to be listening to the third man. I... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Barbara the waitress serves breakfast to Steve Kimbrough at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant while Albert Friedman drinks coffee and waits f... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Steven O. Kimbrough enjoys a second cup of coffee at the lunch counter at the Rennebohm Drug Store No. 4 restaurant in the Hilldale Shopping Center, 702 N.... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | J.H. Gilchrist, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, eyeglasses, and long coat, is standing in a cotton field on his farm to show his granddaughter, Lelia Sykes, th... |
| Date: | 07 06 1926 |
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| Description: | Two men working with a McCormick-Deering Power Drive harvester-thresher (combine) in a field. Decals and/or stencils are on the machine. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of men, women, and children sitting on wooden benches inside Cottage Hill School as they watch Professor P.G. Holden give a presentation on the era... |
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| Description: | After the milk is picked up at the farm, it is stored in tanks that hold up to 25,000 lbs. and is held at temperatures of 38 to 40 degrees. |
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| Description: | The milk is pasteurized for the first step in the cheesemaking process. Milk is heated to 161 degrees, held at that temperature for 15 seconds, and then co... |
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| Description: | After the curds are leveled off in each form, they are turned so that each side of the Brick is pressed. During the course of the day, each form is turned ... |
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| Description: | Brick Cheese derives its name from the bricks used to press the curds. |
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| Description: | In 2004, Widmer's added 3500 sq. feet, which includes packaging, cold storage, loading dock, office and bathroom facilities. Pictured here is Widmer's CEO ... |
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| Description: | CEO Joe Widmer stands in the newly added area used for cheese packaging. |
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| Description: | CEO Joe Widmer stand in the 40-degree cold storage room where Widmer's ages their award winning Cheddar, Brick, and Colby Cheese. |
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| Description: | This farm, at 1728 Hwy 28 (Section 17) is currently owned by "Gordie" Grantman. Gordie acquired the property on April 22, 1977 and moved onto the farm in O... |
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| Description: | Gordan Grantman stands in the barn which was once used by the Paul Dirks family. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Professor Perry Holden (right) and an unidentified man sitting at a desk and looking over promotional materials from International Harvester's Agricultural... |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | Greg and Colleen Hunt live at W2451 Dunn Rd (Section 30). They purchased the property in 1996. |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | Bob and Joan Herbst, at N8560 Hwy 175 (Section 15), have lived here for 6.5 years. |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | The Fink Farm at W2331 Elm Dr. John and Vicky Fink and their children, Brandon and Brittany, pose with John's father, Roger. |
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