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Female Band Serenading Cows

Date: 08 1930
Description: The Ingenues, an all-girl band and vaudeville act, serenading the cows in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Dairy Barn in a scientific test of whether th...
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4-H Band

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Description: 4-H Club band playing near the Police Station at the Wisconsin State Fair. In the background is the Agriculture Department's Milk House.
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Engebretson Mural

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Description: The Engebretson Mural on the side of the Brodhead cheese factory.
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Young Girl Practicing Trumpet

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Description: A young girl practices her trumpet on a dairy farm.
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Cream Separator Display

Date: 05 14 1928
Description: Ball-bearing cream separators, parts, and a one and half horse power stationary engine on display against a backdrop of advertising posters at the Milwauke...
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Cream Separator Delivery

Date: 04 21 1928
Description: Men, most likely International Harvester dealers, and trucks gathered around a railroad boxcar with opened doors. The boxcar and a truck are adorned with p...
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Milking Machine Parts

Date: 1931
Description: Two men standing amongst McCormick-Deering milking machine parts in a display decorated with signs and overhead banners. The display was most likely part o...
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Cream Separator Display

Date: 1932
Description: Cardboard cutouts of a man and a girl with a doll demonstrate the use of a cream separator. Cans of oil are arranged nearby. The display may have been part...
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Dairying Display at Dairy Cattle Congress

Date: 1931
Description: A mechanical(?) cow standing on a platform demonstrates the use of a McCormick-Deering milker at the Dairy Cattle Congress. There are paintings of agricult...
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Dairy Farming Graphic

Date: 1931
Description: Graphic pie-chart depicting the important place of dairying in the national farm economy.
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McCormick-Deering 6-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 1935
Description: Three ladies and four men examine a McCormick-Deering 6-can milk cooler at a dealership or branch house. The photograph was taken in a large well-lit room ...
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Cream Separator on Display at Muscatine Imp. Co.

Date: 07 02 1929
Description: Cream separator advertising display, featuring life-size cutouts of a man pouring milk from a canister and a little girl holding a doll. A sign overhead ad...
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Portrait of A.J. Glover

Date: 02 01 1950
Description: A portrait of A.J. Glover, a pioneer Wisconsin dairy leader, was presented to the University of Wisconsin college of agriculture. His son, W.H. Glover, is ...
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Agricultural Window Display

Date: 1915
Description: Burlap bags, a cream separator, a stationary engine and posters are used in a window display at a store.
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Geo. C. Mansfield Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Geo. (George) C. Mansfield Company, a manufacturer and dealer in butter, eggs, cheese, poultry and country produce from Johnsons Creek, Wis...
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Wisconsin Dairymen's Association Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Wisconsin Dairymen's Association, based in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, with names of officers and members of the Executive Board and an ima...
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Widmer Cheese Factory Interview

Date: 10 1990
Description: "Mike Jacobs of Milwaukee Journal TV4 interviews Ralph Widmer."
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Widmer Cheese Factory

Date: 02 02 1993
Description: "Tour guide, Ralph Widmer, displays a Swiss cow bell to visiting AFS students at Widmer's Cheese Factory. Students were from Thailand, Yugoslavia, Germany,...
Magazine or Periodical

At the "Kindness" Farm

Date: 1960
Description: Carton mocking the need for sanitary conditions in dairy farming. The drawing shows one cow being given a shower while another lays on a feather bed and is...

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