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Cutting the Curd

Date: 1914
Description: A worker cuts curd to make Swiss cheese at the Jorden Cheese factory.
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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...
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

Vending Machines

Date: 1955
Description: Vending and dispensing machines display. Banner above also reads: (Increased dairy sales and better health for your community."
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William Horlick

Date: 1910
Description: Three-quarter length outdoor portrait of William Horlick (1846-1936), co-founder of Horlick's Malted Milk Company of Racine, Wisconsin.
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Milking the Cows

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

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

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."
Photograph

Alice Makes Breakfast

Date: 1972
Description: At a promotional event Deborah Moser, Alice in Dairyland, makes scrambled eggs for customers at a Kohl's grocery store.
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Ernest Albert Hilfiker, Cheesemaker

Date: 1950
Description: Ernest Albert Hilfiker (1905-1993) poses with copper kettles in the making room of the Tuscobia cheese factory.
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Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1951
Description: Marjean Czerwinski of Milwaukee, the 1951 Alice in Dairyland, poses eating an ice cream cone with a young boy and girl.
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Bottling Milk

Date: 1938
Description: Two dairy workers run a milk bottling machine at Golden Guernsey Dairy.
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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...
Photograph

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 ...
Photograph

Ridgell Drug Compant and Ice Cream Parlor

Date: 1918
Description: Two men and a woman sit and stand around a table inside the Ridgell Drug Company and ice cream parlor. Several display cases are arranged behind them and t...
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Alice in Dairyland Candidates

Date: 06 1956
Description: Four candidates for Alice in Dairyland pose together drinking bottles of milk with straws. From left to right are: Betsy Bachhuber of Mayville, Cheeril Hop...
Photograph

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 ...
Poster

Original-Genuine Horlick's Malted Milk

Date: 1900
Description: Advertisement featuring a young girl dressed in a blue dress with a white apron, red necktie, and pink bonnet. The girl is holding a box of Horlick's Malte...

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