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Farmer Pouring Milk for Son

Date: 03 1924
Description: Farmer Hal Ament pouring milk from a pail into a glass for his young son as they stand at the gate of their farmhouse.
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International Harvester Store Display

Date: 04 21 1927
Description: Two men pose outside of McCreary Hardware alongside a giant International Harvester cream separator display. The hardware store also served as an Internati...
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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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Hilgendorf Barn — Interior

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Description: The Hilgendorfs farm 300 acres with 55 milking cows and 45 heifers and calves. On this day they produced a little over 3,000 lbs. of milk.
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Giese Barn

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Description: Gary and Sue Giese live at W1161 Zion Church Road (Section 27). Their granddaughter is Sydney Comstock. The Giese's milk 30 cows that produce about 1,000 l...
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Widmer Cheese

Date: 1972
Description: "Widmer Cheese was a campaign stop for New York Mayor John Lindsay as he looked for votes for president."
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Snow Blower

Date: 1963
Description: Winter scene of Ralph Widmer, the photographer's brother, using a snow blower to clear a walkway on Wisconsin Street, Theresa, Wisconsin. Written on back,...
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Widmer Cheese Factory

Date: 1968
Description: "Paul Koll loads empty milk cans at Widmer Cheese Factory."
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Horse-Drawn Sleigh

Date: 03 1959
Description: "Erhard Luhn, Richard Sigler, & Howard Greiner are bringing milk to Widmer Cheese Factory in a horse-drawn sleigh."
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Widmer Cheese Bulk Truck

Date: 03 1975
Description: "For pumping out the milk at each farm, a small gas engine was used to power the truck's pump. Myron Weninger checks the pump on the Widmer Cheese bulk tru...
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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,...
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Obey and Day on the Farm

Date: 01 1969
Description: As part of a campaign photo shoot, Laurence Day gives candidate David R. Obey a tour of his dairying operation in Marathon County. Day was both a dairy far...
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Home from the Cheese Factory

Date: 1932
Description: John Hurda, left, and Russell Wepking pose with milk cans on a farm wagon. Hurda holds the reins to a team of two horses. There are two small sheds behind ...
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The Gorden Berg Farm

Date: 1987
Description: Open house at the Gordon Berg farm where the Bergs show off their Holsteins.
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Stephen Babcock Milking a Cow

Date: 05 1928
Description: Stephen Moulton Babcock seated on a small stool and milking a cow as another man holds a harness around the cow's head. They are in a University of Wiscons...
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Dairy Farm and Vide Valley

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Description: Elevated view of one man and two women tending the cows near a farm building at a dairy farm in Vide Saeter, Norway. The Vide Valley is in the background.

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