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| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | View across road of two men posing outside a creamery. The creamery has a roofed loading dock on the side. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Knudson Cheese Company. The lawn is covered with flowers. A man sits on the porch. A railroad car is on the left. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 1968 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland, Bobbie Thoreson, holding a platter of cheese, poses with four men at the World Food Expo. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | "Widmer Cheese was a campaign stop for New York Mayor John Lindsay as he looked for votes for president." |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | "This is a copy of a photograph taken by Milwaukee Journal staff photographer, Ernie Annheuser and was featured in that paper. Ralph Widmer lets Mayor John... |
| Date: | 09 28 1948 |
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| Description: | "John O. Widmer shows visitors from Nebraska what Brick Cheese looks like." |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | "Harvey Kamrath washes Brick Cheese at Widmer Cheese Factory." |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | "Cheese display. Varieties are Brick, Cheddar, Colby, Swiss, Provolone & Blue." |
| Date: | 06 24 1948 |
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| Description: | "Leroy Koll removes milk cans from the conveyor at Widmer's Cheese Factory." |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of Ralph Widmer, the photographer's brother, using a snow blower to clear a walkway on Wisconsin Street, Theresa, Wisconsin. Written on back,... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | "Paul Koll loads empty milk cans at Widmer Cheese Factory." |
| Date: | 09 1949 |
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| Description: | "This view is straight south of Widmer Cheese Factory." |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | "Ralph Widmer receives milk at Widmer Cheese Factory." |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | View of two men wearing work clothes, wearing overalls and hats, working at a machine, mostly likely making cheese curds. Another man wearing a suit and ti... |
| Date: | 05 1980 |
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| Description: | "On a hillside off McArthur Road, waste water from Widmer Cheese Factory is dumped into a ridge & furrow disposal system." |
| Date: | 03 1975 |
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| Description: | "For pumping out the milk at each farm, a small gas engine was used to power the truck's pump. Myron Weninger checks the pump on the Widmer Cheese bulk tru... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | "Jerry Adelmeyer picks up whey at Widmer Cheese Factory and transports it to the slurry tank on his farm." |
| Date: | 08 1979 |
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| Description: | "Widmer Cheese employees. Front; Pat Geschke, Harvey Kamrath, Joe- John- Ralph- Jim Widmer." |
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