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Delivering Milk by Wagon

Date: 1915
Description: Farmers delivering their milk in wagons to a dairy plant on Black Creek Road near Appleton. The advent of automobiles would vastly improve farmers ability...
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Dairy Exterior

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Description: Exterior view of a dairy. Two cars and a horse-drawn wagon loaded with milk cans are parked in front of building.
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Casper Jaggi and his Dog

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Description: Hand-colored image of Casper Jaggi and his dog, ready to deliver a load of Swiss cheese to Monticello. He was delivering 6 tubs of Swiss cheese, each weigh...
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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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Farmers' Co-Operative Cheese Factory

Date: 1909
Description: Men with horses and wagons gathered outside the Faville Grove Farmers' Co-Operative Cheese Factory. A poster advertising the State Fair is pasted to the wa...
Postcard

Kirkpatrick Cheese Warehouse

Date: 1920
Description: Five men and one woman, possibly employees of the Kirkpatrick Cheese Factory, gathered in front of the factory building. A car is parked along the curb in ...
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Carnation Milk Products Company Plant

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Description: Exterior view of the Carnation Milk Products Company plant as seen from across railroad tracks.
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The Badger Milk Train

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Description: A group of men are standing next to the Badger Milk Train, which was part of the Sauk County Milk for Peace program. As the sign behind them notes, this pr...
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Main Street

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Description: View down Main Street featuring horse-drawn carriages, street cars, and storefronts. The first true non-railway bridge stands in the distance; the 'Free Br...
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Business District

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Description: View of a business district featuring horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians near storefronts. On the left corner pedestrians gather near a building labeled...
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Blue Moon Foods, Inc. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Blue Moon Foods, Inc., of Thorp, Wisconsin, with a border of waves, a blue sailboat, and a blue moon, and a wheel of Gold-N-Rich cheese, and ...
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Visiting Japanese Students at Leon's Frozen Custard

Date: 1980
Description: View across parking lot towards a group of Japanese woman posing in front of Leon's Frozen Custard. Caption reads: "Visiting Japanese students posed in fro...

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