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Milking the Cows

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Description: Two men are sitting on stools milking cows in a barnyard within a log fence enclosure. Milking was usually done outside during the 19th century so in this ...
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Cheese Factory

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Description: View across road of a cheese factory on the side of a hill. Several people are walking down the driveway, and a car is parked nearby.
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Cheese Factory

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior of a two-story cheese factory. The building features a set of stairs leading to the second-floor entrance and three chimneys. There is a large pil...
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Cheese Factory

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Description: A man poses outdoors in front of a cheese factory. Behind him next to the building is a large wooden tub on stilts, perhaps for holding water.
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Creamery

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior of the Chaseburg Cooperative Creamery. Smoke comes from the back of the building. There is an advertisement for C.R. Watterson, "the painless dent...
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Cooperative Creamery

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior of the Chaseburg Cooperative Creamery and an attached secondary building.
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Creamery with Chimney

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior view across road of a creamery. The front of the creamery has a roof supported with columns over the elevated driveway and loading dock for delive...
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Widmer Cheese Factory

Date: 09 1949
Description: "This view is straight south of Widmer Cheese Factory."
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Farmer and Cows

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Description: A farmer in overalls and hat stands in a pasture next to a Holstein cow. He holds a bucket and is gripping one of the cow's horns. More cows are grouped in...
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Ridge and Furrow Disposal System

Date: 05 1980
Description: "On a hillside off McArthur Road, waste water from Widmer Cheese Factory is dumped into a ridge & furrow disposal system."
Postcard

Hauling Milk at Hering Farm

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Description: Robert Carl Hering and his son Alexander Hering are standing next to a horse-drawn wagon filled with milk containers. Farm buildings are in the background....
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Photograph

Milking the Goats

Date: 1930
Description: A man has tied up a flock of goats and a woman is milking them. They are wearing indigenous clothing. The landscape is rocky with hills in the background. ...
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Farmstead

Date: 1935
Description: Large branches of an oak tree frame the view of a large farmhouse, barn, and outbuildings. The two-story house has two front dormers and porches on the fro...
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West German Farmers Visit Bowman Farm Dairy

Date: 06 17 1960
Description: A group of 75 West German farmers visit Madison on a week-log tour of mechanized farming operations in the Midwest. The group stops at the Bowman Farm Dair...

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