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Hooping the Curd

Date: 1914
Description: Workers hooping the curd to make cheddar cheese at the Plymouth Cheese factory.
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Meat Market

Date: 1910
Description: A customer waits while butchers stand behind the counter of a butcher shop, surrounded by meat hanging from the ceiling.
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Salesman Demonstrates Milker to Customer

Date: 11 22 1937
Description: Salesman Claude De Kay demonstrating the functionality of a McCormick-Deering milker to customer H.M. Arnold against the backdrop of the store's plate glas...
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Sausage Machine

Date: 06 24 1931
Description: Sausages coming off of the sausage machine at the Madison Packing Company, 307 West Johnson Street. Standing around the machine are eight workers and Oswal...
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Toledo Scale

Date: 06 13 1928
Description: Man weighing a milk can on a new Toledo scale at the H.M. Zander Creamery.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: Man weighing butter on Toledo scale at Evans Creamery, Mt. Horeb.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: A man is weighing a bucket on an old scale at the Evans Creamery.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: Man weighing small bucket on Toledo platform scale at Rewey Creamery.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: Toledo scale at Mt. Horeb Creamery, with a man weighing a milk can.
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Men Planning for World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: International Harvester dealer Charles Landaal signs a pledge to help collect scrap as part of Governor Julius P. Heil's "MacArthur Week" scrap drive. Milw...
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Bottling Line at Horlick's Malted Milk Corporation

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Description: Caption on rear: "Modern production line methods such as this are praised by packaging experts for their efficiency and cleanliness."
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Four Women Sewing

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Description: A group of four women sewing in a business setting.
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Ottawa Implement Co.

Date: 05 03 1929
Description: Two men sit on wicker furniture in the showroom of the Ottawa Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. The showroom filled with tractors, ...
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IH Dealership at Ephrata

Date: 1942
Description: Two men at a parts counter in an International Harvester dealership.
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Clarksdale IH Dealership

Date: 1942
Description: Two men at a parts counter in an International Harvester dealership. There is a water cooler, advertising poster, hammer mill and parts bins in the store. ...
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Soroptimists Donate to the Blind

Date: 05 13 1953
Description: Ruth M. Luetscher, president of the Soroptimist Club of Madison, presents a check for $558 to Steve Hopkins at the news stand in the lobby of Madison's Fed...
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Schierl's Blacksmith Shop

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Description: Leander Schierl, Wendelin Schierl, and a young boy inside Schierl's Blacksmith Shop. Leander bends over, shoeing the horse, while his father observes. On t...
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Ideal Body Company Employees and Car

Date: 1934
Description: Three Ideal Body Company employees standing on and around a car. Possibly in the Ideal Body Company shop on Park Street.
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Three Men in a Shoeshine Shop

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Description: Two African American men working in a shoeshine shop. The younger man is shining the shoes of a white customer who is sitting in one of the chairs on the e...
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Line Dancers

Date: 01 10 1993
Description: "On a Sunday evening at G & Z's Hall, country and western line dancers step out smartly to the music."

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