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Poster

Cream Separator Advertising Poster

Date: 1927
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering Primrose ball-bearing cream separators featuring color illustration of a woman and two children operating a cream ...
Poster

Lily Cream Separators Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for Lily brand cream separators featuring a color illustration of a woman operating a hand crank cream separator. Below is a scene of co...
Poster

It's Better with Butter!

Date: 1941
Description: Color poster created by the National Dairy Council, Chicago, of butter and buttered food items such as pancakes, baked potatoes, and a steak, displayed on ...
Photograph

Men Delivering Milk to Creamery

Date: 1922
Description: Two men deliver milk in cans to a creamery from the back of a milk truck.
Photograph

Loading Milk Cans into International L Series Truck

Date: 1950
Description: Color photograph of two men loading milk cans into the back end of International L-120 pickup truck. In the background are two grain silos.
Photograph

Woman Operating Cream Separator

Date: 11 1919
Description: Mrs. Robert Viall operating a belt-driven cream separator. The separator is powered by an International engine.
Photograph

Old Scale

Date: 06 13 1928
Description: Man using an old scale at the H.M. Zander Creamery.
Photograph

Wisconsin Creamery

Date: 1910
Description: Farmers and horse-drawn wagons loaded with milk cans pose in front of a Wisconsin creamery.
Print

Horlick's Food Company Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Horlick's Food Company of Racine, Wisconsin, from the 1890s, showing the Horlick's factory, a dairy maid with a cow and a container of Ho...
Photograph

Creamery

Date: 1922
Description: Creamery and outbuildings in a rural area.
Photograph

Milking the Cows

Date: 1929
Description: A woman runs the milking operation at the G.L. Hamon dairy farm.
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland, Merrie Barney

Date: 1959
Description: Merrie Barney, the 1959 Alice in Dairyland, helps a young boy eating a cream puff, always a favorite treat at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland and Dairy Princesses

Date: 1955
Description: The 1955 Alice in Dairyland, Barbara Brown, stands with four Alice Princesses in front of a Wisconsin Department of Agriculture/American Dairy Association ...
Photograph

William Dempster Hoard

Date: 1912
Description: A head and shoulders portrait of William Dempster Hoard (1836-1918).
Photograph

Poultry and Egg Display

Date: 07 27 1948
Description: Angle view of poultry and egg display case, with dairy products on either side, at A & P grocery store, 623 University Avenue.
Photograph

Poultry and Egg Display

Date: 07 22 1948
Description: Front on view of poultry and egg display case, with dairy products on either side, at A & P grocery store, 623 University Avenue.
Photograph

Brodhead Cheesemaking Room

Date: 
Description: Interior of the Brodhead Cheese Factory with a man by a vat.
Postcard

Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1948
Description: A crowd surrounds a 10-foot mechanical mannequin of Alice in Dairyland at an Alice display for the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The Alice could raise h...
Painting

Wisconsin Centennial Mural

Date: 1948
Description: Center panel of the completed mural at the Wisconsin Historical Society. The image depicts wheat farming, one of the state's earliest and largest industrie...
Photograph

Men Delivering Milk to Creamery

Date: 
Description: Men bringing cans of milk to a building, probably a creamery by a river.

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