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Cathryn Haight Milking Cow

Date: 05 12 1933
Description: Cathryn (Mrs. Ben) Haight sitting on a stool milking a cow by hand on the Capitol View Farm, 5380 Lacy Road.
Photograph

International L-120 Truck Loaded with Milk Cans

Date: 1950
Description: View towards a man driving an International L-120 truck loaded with milk cans. He is talking with another man who is standing in a doorway. Two silos are i...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Milkers Catalog

Date: 1946
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick-Deering milkers. Features the silhouette of a man carrying a milker and five black and white insets of cows.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Milk Coolers

Date: 1939
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering milk coolers, "the only milk cooler with pneumatic water agitation." Includes an illustration ...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Milkers Catalog

Date: 1939
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick-Deering milking machines featuring cows and a milker on a blue background.
Photograph

William Dempster Hoard

Date: 1912
Description: A head and shoulders portrait of William Dempster Hoard (1836-1918).
Postcard

Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1948
Description: A crowd surrounds a 10-foot mechanical mannequin of Alice in Dairyland at an Alice display for the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The Alice could raise h...
Photograph

Man Inspecting Milk Cans

Date: 
Description: A man inspects a long row of milk cans, ready to be loaded onto a truck.
Photograph

Roland Schrap Dairy Farm

Date: 1937
Description: A man stands by a 6 can milk cooler holding a metal basket of milk jars at the Roland Schrap Dairy Farm. To the right of a door is a cream separator. A win...
Photograph

Dairy Equipment on Hazen Pettit Farm

Date: 1937
Description: Rooms with bottles, table, canisters and other dairying equipment on the Hazen Pettit farm. Original caption states: "The vat in the foreground is used fo...
Photograph

Chas. A. Woodson

Date: 1938
Description: Charles A. Woodson, dressed in overalls, is sitting on the corner of a 6 can electric milk cooler inside a wooden building. Two metal pails are on the righ...
Photograph

Man with Milk Cooler

Date: 06 13 1938
Description: A man in a hat and long coat with rubber protectors over his shoes stands next to a McCormick-Deering cooler. Four milk cans are in the foreground. Origin...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Cream Separator Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering cream separators, featuring a color illustration of a cream separator in the foreground and five cow...
Photograph

Widmer Cheese Factory

Date: 06 24 1948
Description: "Leroy Koll removes milk cans from the conveyor at Widmer's Cheese Factory."
Photograph

Widmer Cheese Factory

Date: 1968
Description: "Paul Koll loads empty milk cans at Widmer Cheese Factory."
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Sleigh

Date: 03 1959
Description: "Erhard Luhn, Richard Sigler, & Howard Greiner are bringing milk to Widmer Cheese Factory in a horse-drawn sleigh."
Document

Dayton Pump Products Co. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Dayton Pump Products Company of Belgium, Wisconsin, distributor of Dayton Water Systems, with six vignettes of water systems in use: wate...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Milkers Brochure

Date: 1941
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering Milkers, featuring a photograph of a man carrying a milker and looking off into the distance. Origin...
Photograph

Loading Milk Pails

Date: 1965
Description: View from inside a building of two men loading milk pails onto a wagon while a man seated on a McCormick 434 tractor looks on.
Photograph

Bancroft Brothers Delivery

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Description: View across yard of a Bancroft Brothers delivery truck parked near the corner of a barn and shed. The back of a parked wagon is on the left, near two large...

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