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Horlick's Food Company Letterhead

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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...
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Creamery in Clear Lake

Date: 1910
Description: View of the side of the creamery, with two men standing at an open door at the end of the building on the left. Caption reads: "Creamery Clear Lake Wis."
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Dipping Feeding Cloth

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Description: A man dips a feeding cloth into the kettle with his ankles held by a T-bar.
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Dipping Feeding Cloth

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Description: A man dips a feeding cloth into a kettle.
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Closing Cloth after Dipping

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Description: Men closing up the cloth after dipping it into the kettle.
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Hooking Bag onto Pulley

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Description: Men hook a bag of cheese from a kettle onto a hook with a pulley.
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Squeezing Whey

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Description: Men squeeze whey before pressing.
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Men Retrieving Curd

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Description: Men prepare to retrieve the remainder of the curd from a kettle and add it to the bag.
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Pressing into Mold

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Description: A man presses cheese into a mold.
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Preparing to Turn Wheel

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Description: Men prepare to turn a wheel of cheese.
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Brine Tanks

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Description: Brine tanks and people in the background.
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Grading Cheese

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Description: Cheese being graded by a man with a fedora using a tryor to take a core of cheese.
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Brodhead Cheesemaking Room

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Description: Interior of the Brodhead Cheese Factory with a man by a vat.
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Dipping the Curd

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Description: Two men dipping the curd in a cheese kettle.
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Draining Whey

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Description: Interior of the making room as the workers drain whey.
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Men with Cheesecloth

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Description: Casper Jaggi and Jake Wurtz working with cheesecloth in 110 degree weather and no internal factory cooling system.
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Casper Jaggi Pressing Cheese

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Description: Casper Jaggi pressing cheese.
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Fritz Friedly Dumping Milk

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Description: Fritz Friedly dumping milk with a can wash in front.
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Fritz Friedly Dumping Milk

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Description: Fritz Friedly dumping milk by a can washer.
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Fritz Friedly Dumping Milk

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Description: Fritz Friedly dumping milk by a can washer.

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