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Pressing Curd

Date: 1941
Description: Two men pressing the curd into a form at the Swiss Cheese Factory.
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Consumer's Co-op Dairy

Date: 01 12 1937
Description: Consumer's Co-op Dairy. Interior view of vats.
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Consumer's Co-op Dairy

Date: 01 12 1937
Description: Consumer's Co-op Dairy. Interior view of bottling plant.
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Fred Wenger Cheese Factory

Date: 06 20 1948
Description: Man and woman standing outside the Fred Wenger cheese factory.
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Hilltop Cheese Factory

Date: 05 30 1964
Description: Landscape view from field of a rolling countryside. A small cheese factory resides on a slope, with a tree, a windmill, two cars and a tractor near an outb...
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Deerfield Creamery Company

Date: 1926
Description: Exterior view of the Deerfield Creamery Company. Two cars are parked in the lot in front of the factory. There are storage tanks in the background on the r...
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Alice in Dairyland

Date: 10 1968
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Bobbie Thoreson, holding a platter of cheese, poses with four men at the World Food Expo.
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Wisconsin Master Cheesemaker

Date: 04 1998
Description: "In ceremonies at Madison, Joe Widmer was named a Wisconsin Master Cheesemaker. His mentor was his uncle, Ralph Widmer."
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Traditional Swiss Cheese Production at the West Middleton Cheese Cooperative

Date: 06 03 1954
Description: Cheese makers Alfred Abplanalp (right) and Bernard Cupp perform the old-time Swiss cheese making method of using cheese cloth to skim the curd from the top...
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Traditional Swiss Cheese Production at the West Middleton Cheese Cooperative

Date: 06 03 1954
Description: Cheese makers Bernard Cupp (right) and Alfred Abplanalp (left) completing the process of skimming curd from a vault of whey by lifting the cheese cloth bag...
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Annual Meeting of Wisconsin Cheese Makers' Association

Date: 11 04 1958
Description: The 67th annual meeting of the Wisconsin Cheese Makers' Association is held in Madison at the Hotel Loraine. The meeting included the 2nd annual World's Ch...

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