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Barron Coop Creamery

Date: 1900
Description: Two men pose at the Barron Coop Creamery next to the churns full of butter, which is ready to be packed into the small barrels nearby.
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Making a One-Ton Tub of Butter

Date: 1930
Description: Several men in white are shown churning a one-ton tub of butter for exhibit at the State Fair.
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Churning Butter

Date: 05 12 1933
Description: Ellen (Mrs. William) Lacy, of Sunny Slope farm, 5810 Lacy Road, south of Madison, sitting in the farmyard and turning a barrel butter churn.
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Young Man Buttering a Slice of Bread

Date: 1919
Description: A young man sitting at a table buttering a slice of bread.
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Clinton Bullard Sells No Substitutes

Date: 12 18 1931
Description: Clinton Bullard holding a package of butter next to a sign that reads: "No Oleomargarine or Butter Substitutes Bought or Sold in this Store," in his store ...
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: Man weighing butter on Toledo scale at Evans Creamery, Mt. Horeb.
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Precison Cutting

Date: 1950
Description: Two men operate a machine that uses wires to make equal portions out of a large slab of butter.
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Betsey Busied by Bossy's Butter

Date: 1905
Description: Woman churning butter.
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Alice in Dairyland and Miss Sweet Corn Queen

Date: 1951
Description: Marjean Czerwinski, the 1951 Alice in Dairyland, butters an ear of corn held by Pat Baker, Miss Sweet Corn Queen.
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Otto Wolff at Butter Churn

Date: 05 08 1945
Description: Otto Wolff, supervisior of butter making for the Madison Dairy Produce Company, 1018 East Washington Avenue, at the butter churn. Left to right: Otto Wolff...
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Wisconsin Buttermaker's Association, 13th Annual Meeting

Date: 02 03 1914
Description: Panoramic group portrait of the 13th annual meeting of the Wisconsin Buttermakers' Association, Feb. 3-5, 1914. Taken outside of the Wisconsin State Capito...
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Judging Butter

Date: 07 1915
Description: Group of men, perhaps participants in a University of Wisconsin short course, tasting butter.
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Second Grade Children Making Butter

Date: 11 05 1950
Description: Second grade children of Lowell School engaging in a class project of making butter as part of a dairy study. Warren Oakes, (left) is churning the cream wi...
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Second Grade Children Making Butter

Date: 11 05 1950
Description: Second grade children of Lowell School engaging in a class project of making butter as part of a dairy study. Neil Nygaard (right) is pouring off the butte...
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Second Grade Children Making Butter

Date: 12 05 1950
Description: Second grade children of Lowell School engaging in a class project of making butter as part of a dairy study. Karen Rockney (left) is washing the butter as...
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Second Grade Children Making Butter

Date: 12 05 1950
Description: Second grade children of Lowell School engaging in a class project of making butter as part of a dairy study. Sally Myers, (left) is stirring the butter wh...
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Second Grade Children Making Butter

Date: 12 05 1950
Description: Second grade children of Lowell School engaging in a class project of making butter as part of a dairy study. Left to right, spreading butter on crackers, ...
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Second Grade Children Making Butter

Date: 12 05 1950
Description: Second grade children of Lowell School engaging in a class project of making butter as part of a dairy study. Billy Husebo is eating a cracker spread with ...
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Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 01 1954
Description: Two examples of foods made with butter are on display during Farm and Home Week at the University of Wisconsin School of Home Economics. At the left is an ...
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Land O'Lakes Delivery Truck

Date: 1935
Description: Men move wooden crates of butter from a loading dock onto the back of an International C-30 truck leased by the Land O'Lakes Company.

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