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International D-30 Truck

Date: 1938
Description: Men loading cases of eggs onto an International D-30 truck parked in front of Geo. F. Wagner & Co. Inc. The truck has a farm scene painted on the side, inc...
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Cheese Factory

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Description: Building thought to be a cheese factory, with workers and horse-drawn delivery wagons in the front.
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Kilbourn Cooperative Creamery

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Description: Exterior view of the Kilbourn Cooperative Creamery on Superior Street.
Photograph

International G-61 Maine Creamery Ice Cream Truck

Date: 1921
Description: Two men sit in the cab of an International Model G-61 truck operated by the Maine Creamery Ice Cream Company. A sign on the side of the truck reads: "The N...
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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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Milk Cooler

Date: 11 16 1936
Description: A man places a milk can into a McCormick-Deering 6-can milk cooler on the farm of Mrs. Joe Schmidt.
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McCormick-Deering Milk Cooler Demonstration

Date: 10 06 1937
Description: C.L. Thompson, a McCormick-Deering dealer explains a milk cooler, which is loaded on a trailer hauled by an International truck, to Wayne Wakefield. Both m...
Photograph

Poinsettia Dairy Trucks

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: An International C-35 truck used by Poinsettia Dairy Products, Inc., parked outside a company building. A sign in the shape of a milk bottle advertises ice...
Photograph

Datson Dairies Truck

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: A man unloads milk bottles from the back of an International Model C-1 truck used by Datson Dairies Inc. The truck is parked on a residential street in fro...
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International Trucks at Creamery

Date: 11 01 1934
Description: Men unload milk cans from International motor trucks at the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery in Boise Valley. J.H. Brown, manager, stands beside the truck.
Photograph

International C-Line Truck at Penn Dairy

Date: 1937
Description: A man and woman are loading crates of milk into an International C-Line truck at Penn Dairy Farm. According to the original caption, "Mr. and Mrs. Johhnson...
Manuscript

Have Our Rural Schools Kept Pace?

Date: 07 1951
Description: Graphic from University of Wisconsin Extension Service Special Circular 20 showing progress in transportation and economics and posing the question "have o...
Photograph

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,...
Photograph

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."
Document

Dayton Pump Products Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Dayton Pump Products Company of Belgium, Wisconsin, distributor of Dayton Water Systems, with six vignettes of water systems in use: wate...
Print

Hoard's Dairyman Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Hoard's Dairyman, "The National Dairy Farm Magazine," with a bird's eye view of the company farm buildings, and a mailbox with an upraised fl...
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....
Photograph

Bancroft Brothers Delivery

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Description: View across yard of a Bancroft Brothers delivery truck parked near the corner of a barn and shed. The back of a parked wagon is on the left, near two large...
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Men Loading Truck with Milk Cans

Date: 07 22 1925
Description: Men are loading milk cans into the back of a truck parked near a large brick building.

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