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Wisconsin Cheese Billboard

Date: 09 28 1942
Description: Highway billboard advertising Wisconsin cheese for the Department of Agriculture and Markets.
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Buckhorn Cheese Company

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Description: Exterior view of the Buckhorn Cheese Company plant. A sign painted on the exterior of the building reads: "Take One Home."
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Stamping Cheeses

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Description: A male worker in a cheese-making factory places a Wisconsin stamp on cheeses.
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McCoy's Ice Cream Shop

Date: 02 22 1938
Description: Two clerks and a customer in McCoy's Ice Cream Shop, 507 State Street, with Oscar Mayer Coolerator food display case.
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Men with Big Cheese

Date: 02 26 1936
Description: Five men stand behind a 200 pound wheel of Swiss cheese. Written on wheel is "Madison Milk Producers Cooperative Ass'n." The cheese was a gift for Major Ed...
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Milwaukee Cheese Company Trucks

Date: 06 23 1934
Description: Milwaukee Cheese Company trucks, parked in a row at 301 South Few Street.
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Simon Hotel Dining Room

Date: 08 25 1932
Description: Dining room, Simon Hotel, 107-113 S. Butler Street, with tables set for dinner. A large plaque on the wall reads: "Eat More Cheese. Eat all You Want. No Ex...
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Weighing the Cheese

Date: 11 15 1929
Description: A worker weighing a wheel of cheese on a balance scale for the National Cheese Products Federation.
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Wheel of Cheese

Date: 11 15 1929
Description: A worker weighs a wheel of cheese on a Toledo scale for the National Cheese Products Federation.
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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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Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire

Date: 1952
Description: Margaret McGuire, named the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948, promotes Wisconsin cheese.
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Two Men at Brine Tanks

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Description: Two men working with cheese at the brine tanks.
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Washing Cheese

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Description: Men preparing cheese to wash.
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Cheese in Cooling Room

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Description: Cheese in the cooling room, with aged cheese in the upper left corner.
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Cheese Cooling Room

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Description: Two men stand with cheese in the cooling room.
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Man Draining Curd

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Description: a man drains curd with a cheddar curd mill.
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Frieda Jaggi at First Factory

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Description: Hand-colored photograph of Frieda Jaggi at county line factory, the first family factory, which had a wood frame and heated kettles. It was common for Fri...
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Coldren Factory

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Description: Men work at the Coldren Cheese Factory.
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The Cooling Room at Coldren

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Description: Men stand in the cooling room at Coldren which stored the wheels of cheese on lids on pipe shelves to keep mice away.

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