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| Description: | In 2004, Widmer's added 3500 sq. feet, which includes packaging, cold storage, loading dock, office and bathroom facilities. Pictured here is Widmer's CEO ... |
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| Description: | CEO Joe Widmer stands in the newly added area used for cheese packaging. |
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| Description: | Paul and Evangeline Koll have 27 stanchions in their barn. They ceased milking cows May 26, 1988. |
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| Description: | Gordan Grantman stands in the barn which was once used by the Paul Dirks family. |
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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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| 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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| 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. |
| Date: | 06 21 1953 |
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| Description: | Catherine Clayton (left) is handling money and the cash box, while Ernest Corley (center) is examining identification at the beginning of a three-day conf... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for "McCormick-Deering Ball Bearing Cream Separators with Stainless Steel Discs." Features a photograph of a man using a c... |
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| Description: | A farmer kneels next to a dairy cow in a barn. He is using a portable milking machine. A milk can sits in the foreground. |
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| Description: | Horses and wagons carrying aluminum barrels are standing outside the cheese factory. Workers pause from work to pose. Each worker wears overalls and a hat. |
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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. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering Milk Coolers. Features a color illustration of a polar bear on an iceberg and a photo of a man putti... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | View across road of two men posing outside a creamery. The creamery has a roofed loading dock on the side. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Knudson Cheese Company. The lawn is covered with flowers. A man sits on the porch. A railroad car is on the left. |
| Date: | 07 1951 |
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| Description: | Graphic from University of Wisconsin Extension Service Special Circular 20 showing progress in transportation and economics and posing the question "have o... |
| Date: | 10 1968 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland, Bobbie Thoreson, holding a platter of cheese, poses with four men at the World Food Expo. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | "Widmer Cheese was a campaign stop for New York Mayor John Lindsay as he looked for votes for president." |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | "This is a copy of a photograph taken by Milwaukee Journal staff photographer, Ernie Annheuser and was featured in that paper. Ralph Widmer lets Mayor John... |
| Date: | 09 28 1948 |
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| Description: | "John O. Widmer shows visitors from Nebraska what Brick Cheese looks like." |
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