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Photograph

Waiting For Pure Fresh Milk

Date: 1889
Description: Stereograph of a posed scene showing a woman milking a cow as two other women stand waiting at an open barn door. On the left a man at a hand-pump is behin...
Photograph

Men Delivering Milk to Creamery

Date: 
Description: Men bringing cans of milk to a building, probably a creamery by a river.
Photograph

IH Drinking Fountain at Ohio State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: Two boys drink from water fountains cooled with International Harvester milk coolers at the Ohio State Fair. The sign by the water fountain reads, "Here's ...
Poster

Dairymaid Cream Harvester Advertising Poster

Date: 1912
Description: Advertising poster for the Dairymaid cream harvester (cream separator). Features color illustrations of grazing cows near a stream, a woman with a pail ov...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Milk Coolers Brochure

Date: 1938
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...
Document

Dayton Pump Products Co. Letterhead

Date: 
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...
Map or Atlas

Map of Creameries and Cheese Factories in Wisconsin

Date: 1906
Description: A commercial map of Wisconsin showing the location of creameries and cheese factories in the state. In the lower portion of the map provides the number of ...
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 ...

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