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Female Band Serenading Cows

Date: 08 1930
Description: The Ingenues, an all-girl band and vaudeville act, serenading the cows in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Dairy Barn in a scientific test of whether th...
Print

Dairymaid Cream Separator Catalog

Date: 1913
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Dairymaid line of cream separators showing a woman with her hand on a gate and a pail over he...
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen Jenks

Date: 09 02 1953
Description: Mary Ellen Jenks, the 1953 Alice in Dairyland, visits a Boy Scout camp, where she is surrounded by admiring scouts and a member of the navy.
Photograph

IHC Cream Separator Display at Iowa State Fair

Date: 08 22 1929
Description: Men, women, and children at an International Harvester cream separator exhibit at the Iowa State Fair. A company representative appears to be pointing out ...
Photograph

Abraham C. Martin and Family

Date: 1871
Description: Springfield Township, Dane County (Section 22) corner of Fischer Road and Highway 12, Wi. Abraham C. Martin, a farmer and dairyman with his family in fron...
Photograph

Century of Progress Queen Feeds Mechanical Cow

Date: 06 30 1933
Description: Miss Lillian Anderson, "Queen" of the Century of Progress world's fair, pretending to feed a mechanical cow. The cow was used to demonstrate McCormick-Deer...
Photograph

Governor Kohler and Milk Toast

Date: 08 30 1954
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., and an unidentified elderly woman, toast each other with paper cups of milk. They are standing near the Department of Agric...
Book or Pamphlet

Dairymaid Cream Separators Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Dairymaid cream separators sold by International Harvester. Features a silhouette of a woman standing in the doorway of...
Photograph

Dairy Day Parade

Date: 02 12 1917
Description: "Dairy maids" walk down the street in front of Wood's Model Grocery in "the big parade."
Photograph

Individuals Working on a Farm

Date: 08 26 1917
Description: Barn, silos and cows at a farm. There are men attending to the cows, while the women and children are attending to the milk cans.
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...
Photograph

United States Map in Milking Machine Parts Display

Date: 1931
Description: A group of people look at an 1831 United States map, part of a McCormick-Deering milking machine parts display. The title on the map reads, "The United St...
Photograph

Cream Separator Demonstration

Date: 1930
Description: A group of men and women are gathered to watch two men demonstrate a McCormick-Deering cream separator at A&P Creamery. The cream separator was sold by the...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering 6-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 1935
Description: Three ladies and four men examine a McCormick-Deering 6-can milk cooler at a dealership or branch house. The photograph was taken in a large well-lit room ...
Photograph

Woman Milking Cow

Date: 1939
Description: Mrs. Harvey Schmidt sits on a stool in a barn to milk a cow by hand.
Photograph

Cream Separator at Farmhouse

Date: 1923
Description: A woman wearing an apron is standing on the porch of a farmhouse to look at a McCormick cream separator at the base of the stairs. Nearby a man wearing ove...
Photograph

Woman with Cream Separator

Date: 1921
Description: A woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a dress is standing and holding the hand crank of a McCormick Primrose cream separator on the porch of a house.
Painting

Milking Time

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Description: A farm family takes part in milking time. The mother carries a milk can and a stripping bucket while the boy pushes milk cans on a cart toward the barn. Th...
Photograph

Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Packing

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Description: Each Brick Cheese is packed in an airtight bag. A machine draws all the air out of the bag and a clip is applied. By dipping each package in hot water, the...
Photograph

Koll Barn — Interior

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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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