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Scale

Date: 06 13 1928
Description: Man weighing a milk can on an old scale at Mt. Horeb Creamery.
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Old Scale

Date: 06 08 1928
Description: Man weighing milk can on old platform scale at Belmont Creamery.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 06 08 1928
Description: Man weighing milk can on Toledo scale at Belmont Creamery.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: Man weighing bucket on Toledo bench scale at Federation Creamery.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: Man weighing bucket on old bench scale at Federation Creamery.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: A man weighing a large container on a Toledo platform scale at the Federation Creamery.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: Man weighing small bucket on Toledo platform scale at Rewey Creamery.
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Madison Dairy Laboratory

Date: 01 09 1946
Description: Two men performing a test in a laboratory at the Madison Dairy, 1018 East Washington Avenue.
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Summer Vacation Jobs for Youth

Date: 07 11 1949
Description: Ronnie Kurth, a recent graduate of East High School, has a summer job of making fruit-flavored Popsicles and ice cream bars at Schoep's, 514 Division Stree...
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Casper Jaggi and Workers

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Description: Casper Jaggi, on right, with cheese harp, and three brothers of the Erb family, (holding stirrers), standing outdoors at the Coldren Cheese factory. They a...
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Curds and Whey

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Description: The milk, after cutting, has been transformed into curds and whey. The curds are comprised of the solids in the milk and the remaining whey is the liquid p...
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars

Date: 02 10 1978
Description: "Widmer's Cheese Cellars. (l-r) Harvey Kamrath, Ralph, Joe, and John Widmer scoop brick cheese curds out of the vat. Widmers are now in their 56th year of ...
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Widmer Milk Truck

Date: 1958
Description: "Digging out the milk truck in the Breitag Road."
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Farm Buildings: Concrete Block Milkhouse

Date: 1924
Description: A woman and her dog standing at the doorway of a concrete block milk house.
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Widmer Cheese Factory

Date: 1960
Description: "Ralph Widmer receives milk at Widmer Cheese Factory."
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Cheese Factory

Date: 1920
Description: View across dirt road of two men wearing overalls standing outside a rural cheese factory. There is a large, low wooden tub at the driveway entrance, and a...
Print

Woman with Two Jersey Cows

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Description: An illustration of two jersey cows and a woman holding a milking pail. Text at bottom reads: Two Jersey Cows — Beauty and Jersey — The Property of the Illi...
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Man with Cream Separator

Date: 07 07 1925
Description: View of a man working in a room at a dairy with a McCormick-Deering Primrose cream separator. There are metal milk cans on shelves behind him.
Postcard

Wisconsin Cheese Factory

Date: 1916
Description: Interior view of a cheese factory, with two men posing. Caption on back reads in part: "Cooking the milk in copper-lined vats."
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People Working in Cheese Factory

Date: 1980
Description: Two people are working with cheese curds.

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