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Cross Plains Ice Cream Parlor

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior of ice cream parlor with a horse-drawn wagon parked on the right with sheds behind. Barrels are stacked on the porch. Signs above the porch read: ...
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Roadside Milk Bar

Date: 09 11 1945
Description: Interior of Roadside Milk Bar with soda fountain, service island, and booths. The business was located on Middleton Road (University Avenue), just before t...
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McCoy Ice Cream Parlor

Date: 09 08 1937
Description: A soda jerk pouring a malt into a glass as three women are sitting at the counter of McCoy's Ice Cream Parlor, located at 507 State Street.
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McCoy Ice Cream Parlor

Date: 09 08 1937
Description: Three women are drinking malts at the counter of McCoy's Ice Cream Parlor, 507 State Street. A sign on the wall reads: "A Balanced meal in every glassful! ...
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Kennedy Dairy Truck

Date: 11 02 1932
Description: Kennedy Dairy Company truck displaying a new paint job.
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Hudson Park Pharmacy

Date: 12 29 1947
Description: Hudson Park Pharmacy, 2337 Atwood Avenue, interior view of soda fountain, with a display of greeting cards and booths, and a poster for "Elsie" Borden's Ic...
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Lawson Drug Store Interior

Date: 12 29 1947
Description: Lawson Drug Store interior, view of the soda fountain, featuring Borden's ice cream products.
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Golden Guernsey Dairy Delivery Truck

Date: 1938
Description: A milkman stands inside a Golden Guernsey Dairy delivery truck loading bottles into a carrier. The truck is parked at a curb and a house is in the backgrou...
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Muller's Milk Truck

Date: 1934
Description: A man carrying a crate of milk bottles and wearing a hat and overalls walks toward an International truck owned by Muller's Union Dairy. The truck is parke...
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Dean Dairy Truck

Date: 11 09 1934
Description: An International truck owned by Dean Dairy is parked along the curb on a street in a residential area. A man is delivering bottles of milk to a house in th...
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Children and Woman with Cream Separator

Date: 10 27 1926
Description: A girl us turning the crank on a cream separator as a boy and a woman are looking on. The woman and children are standing in a kitchen, and the woman is wa...
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Brodhead Cheese Factory

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Description: Exterior of Brodhead Cheese Factory with man standing in front. The first Jaggi family factory was known as County Line Co. The business shipped cheese in ...
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Russell E. Frost Family

Date: 12 01 1951
Description: Gorup portrait of the Russell E. Frost family seated in a ice cream booth, eating a variety of frozen confections. Left to right: Sue Frost; Jack Frost; Be...
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Dairy Products Delivery Truck

Date: 1950
Description: International truck with a metro body used by Valley Farm Dairy Company. A delivery man is standing on the foot board of the truck carrying a basket of bot...
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Wisconsin Council of Agriculture Exhibit

Date: 1938
Description: The Wisconsin Council of Agriculture exhibit at the 1938 Wisconsin State Fair.
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Carnation Dairy Truck

Date: 1972
Description: View of a man unloading cartons of milk from an International truck used by the Carnation Company. The truck appears to be an International 1710 COE truck....
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Good Humor Ice Cream Truck

Date: 06 01 1936
Description: The driver of a Good Humor ice cream truck sells ice cream to a young customer in a residential neighborhood.
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Golden Arrow Dairy Truck

Date: 11 04 1935
Description: A man unloads milk bottles from the back of an International C-30 truck owned by Golden Arrow Dairy, Inc. A house is in the background.
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Sorgs Creamery

Date: 1914
Description: Three-quarter view of the front and side of Sorgs Creamery, a rectangular brick building with a collapsing awning. A wagon with and umbrella and barrels pu...
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Hawksworth Ice Cream Parlor

Date: 1910
Description: A group of five young women sit at tables in the Hawksworth Ice Cream Parlor. The woman in the center has been identified as Josephine Edith McEvoy (later ...

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