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| Description: | CEO Joe Widmer stand in the 40-degree cold storage room where Widmer's ages their award winning Cheddar, Brick, and Colby Cheese. |
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| Description: | View across road of a cheese factory on the side of a hill. Several people are walking down the driveway, and a car is parked nearby. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing an apron and a hairnet standing at a counter while using a hoop strainer to make cheese(?). She is using another metal utensil to press whe... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Exterior of a two-story cheese factory. The building features a set of stairs leading to the second-floor entrance and three chimneys. There is a large pil... |
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| Description: | Horses and wagons carrying aluminum barrels are standing outside the cheese factory. Workers pause from work to pose. Each worker wears overalls and a hat. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View down road towards a car parked in front of the cheese factory. |
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| Description: | A man poses outdoors in front of a cheese factory. Behind him next to the building is a large wooden tub on stilts, perhaps for holding water. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Chaseburg Cooperative Creamery. Smoke comes from the back of the building. There is an advertisement for C.R. Watterson, "the painless dent... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Chaseburg Cooperative Creamery and an attached secondary building. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of J.G. Pickett, a manufacturer of and dealer in full cream factory cheese in Picketts Station, Wisconsin, with background images of the head of... |
| 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." |
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| Description: | "This Widmer Cheese Factory sign was visible to travelers south bound on Hwy 41. It stood near the present day rest area, near the Hwy 28 turn off." |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | "Cheese display. Varieties are Brick, Cheddar, Colby, Swiss, Provolone & Blue." |
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