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Man Delivering Milk with Truck

Date: 1936
Description: Man getting out of an International M-3 truck owned by the Golden Guernsey Dairy. The truck is parked on a residential street, and the driver is carrying a...
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Maple Hill Farm Dairy Truck

Date: 01 29 1937
Description: A man gets into an International truck owned by Maple Hill Farm Dairy. The truck dairy truck which is parked on a dirt driveway in front of a brick buildin...
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Sterling Amherst Farms Dairy Truck

Date: 03 08 1937
Description: A man driving an International truck down a road in front of the Sterling Amherst Farms Dairy building.
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Border Cities Dairy Truck

Date: 09 11 1936
Description: View from across street of a man holding a carton of milk bottles and standing next to an International truck owned by Border Cities Dairy. The truck is pa...
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Borden Co. Plant

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Description: View toward the Borden Co. plant, with a truck parked in front with a man standing in the back.
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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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International S-120 Ice Cream Supply Truck

Date: 1955
Description: International Model S-120 truck used by Border's Ice Cream for deliveries. A delivery man stands near the passenger door of the truck holding some of the p...
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International L-190 Tanker

Date: 1952
Description: A truck driver inspecting the tank of his International L-190 truck. The truck was owned by the "Pet Milk Company."
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International Metro Van

Date: 1942
Description: A man is standing beside International Metro delivery van used by St. Louis Dairy parked outside company factory. A sign on the dairy building reads: "St. ...
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Milk Storage

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Description: After the milk is picked up at the farm, it is stored in tanks that hold up to 25,000 lbs. and is held at temperatures of 38 to 40 degrees.
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Pasturization

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Description: The milk is pasteurized for the first step in the cheesemaking process. Milk is heated to 161 degrees, held at that temperature for 15 seconds, and then co...
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Coagulation

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Description: Two men working in a vat that has been filled with pasteurized milk and to which rennet (an extract from a calf's stomach) has been added, which coagulates...
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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 — Brick Cheese Forms

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Description: Workers are busy filling the stainless steel Brick Cheese forms with curds.
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Brick Cheese Production

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Description: Each Brick of cheese weighs out at approximately 5 pounds. The general rule of thumb is that it takes 10 pounds of milk to produce 1 pound of cheese. A 5 p...
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Forming Brick Cheese

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Description: After the curds are leveled off in each form, they are turned so that each side of the Brick is pressed. During the course of the day, each form is turned ...
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Brick Cheese

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Description: Brick Cheese derives its name from the bricks used to press the curds.
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Cream Extraction

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Description: There is some cream in the whey, which is extracted by pumping the whey through this cream separator (a Westfalia Centrifuge).
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Salt Brine Tank

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Description: Cheesemakers remove loaves of Brick Cheese that have been floating in the salt brine tank for 14 hours.

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