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| Date: | 11 14 1958 |
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| Description: | Ronald E. Johnson of Mount Sterling, with world champion cheddar cheese at the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association Contest. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association Contest winners Evan Appleman, Carl Huber, Fred Beuer, and Werner Zimmerman, Jr. posing with their entries. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Richard M. Nixon welcomed by Barbara Bird, Honey Queen, and Wisconsin Governor Vernon W. Thomson with cheese package at the Oshkosh Airport. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Cheesemaker standing on ladder putting cheese on storage shelf, along with rows of other cheeses. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Department of Agriculture workers cut large blocks of Swiss cheese. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Women wearing white smocks or aprons wrap slabs of cheese for distribution. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Margaret McGuire, named the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948, promotes Wisconsin cheese. |
| Date: | 09 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Close-up of the Harp and Kettle Cheese House drive-in restaurant and store with roadside sign advertising "Aged Cheese, Retail, Mail Orders, Gift Boxes." |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Ernest Albert Hilfiker (1905-1993) poses with copper kettles in the making room of the Tuscobia cheese factory. |
| Date: | 02 08 1956 |
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| Description: | Senator Alexander Wiley presenting a block of cheese to Senator George. |
| Date: | 02 10 1956 |
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| Description: | Senator Wiley and Mrs. John Nance Garner, wife of the Vice President, stand on either side of a woman holding a basket and sitting on the world's largest c... |
| Date: | 09 25 1952 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Governor Walter Kohler presenting a cheese basket to visiting Florida governor Fuller Warren. |
| Date: | 09 28 1953 |
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| Description: | Sylvia Graf and children Eric, 3 years, and Siri, 9 months, taste cheese. Sylvia is the social sewing chairman for the Junior Division of the University Le... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | "A sled was used to convey the milk cans. Shown are Ralph Widmer, Bill Breitag, and Ken Reimer." |
| Date: | 09 23 1954 |
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| Description: | "Swiss Center," a false building front in the style of a Swiss chalet taken for Swiss Center, a Wisconsin natural cheese gift box mail order company locate... |
| Date: | 09 23 1954 |
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| Description: | Cheese gift box from Swiss Center Cheese, "Wisconsin's Famous Cheese House," located at 2805 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 08 26 1954 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Milwaukee Cheese Company building at 1133 East Wilson Street. The company was founded by the Zwicky Brothers in 1912 and they opened ... |
| Date: | 05 22 1956 |
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| Description: | William H. Siemering stands in a kitchen grating cheese while wearing the traditional chef's apron, hat, and neckerchief. His specialty is "Eggs Wisconsin.... |
| Date: | 11 13 1958 |
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| Description: | Ronald E. Johnson of Mt. Sterling in Crawford County, Wisconsin, was named the winner of the World Cheddar Cheese Championship at the Hotel Loraine. He rec... |
| Date: | 02 01 1955 |
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| Description: | School children from the Madison area are among the first visitors at the opening of the $100,000 Dairy Caravan at the State Capitol. Maple Grove pupils ob... |
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