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Farmer and Cows

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Description: A farmer in overalls and hat stands in a pasture next to a Holstein cow. He holds a bucket and is gripping one of the cow's horns. More cows are grouped in...
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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...
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Widmer Cheese Factory

Date: 1960
Description: "Ralph Widmer receives milk at Widmer Cheese Factory."
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Making Cheese Curds

Date: 1937
Description: View of two men wearing work clothes, wearing overalls and hats, working at a machine, mostly likely making cheese curds. Another man wearing a suit and ti...
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Widmer Cheese Bulk Truck

Date: 03 1975
Description: "For pumping out the milk at each farm, a small gas engine was used to power the truck's pump. Myron Weninger checks the pump on the Widmer Cheese bulk tru...
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Widmer Cheese Employees

Date: 08 1979
Description: "Widmer Cheese employees. Front; Pat Geschke, Harvey Kamrath, Joe- John- Ralph- Jim Widmer."
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Two Boys and a Woman Holding Milking Machinery

Date: 10 1906
Description: Two boys dressed in dark work shoes, overalls, and button-up shirts are standing on either side of a woman in front of a doorway. The woman is dressed in a...
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Widmer Cheese Factory Interview

Date: 10 1990
Description: "Mike Jacobs of Milwaukee Journal TV4 interviews Ralph Widmer."
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Widmer Cheese Factory

Date: 02 02 1993
Description: "Tour guide, Ralph Widmer, displays a Swiss cow bell to visiting AFS students at Widmer's Cheese Factory. Students were from Thailand, Yugoslavia, Germany,...
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars

Date: 02 1995
Description: Janet Wendling and Marilyn Zingsheim package brick cheese at Widmer Cheese.
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Theresa Parade

Date: 08 1995
Description: "Parade in Theresa, corner of Milwaukee and Henni Street." Image features the Widmer cheese wagon.
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....
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Loading Milk onto International Truck

Date: 1968
Description: Slightly elevated view of men loading milk pails onto the bed of an International pickup truck, while a woman carrying buckets is walking by, accompanied b...
Photograph

McCormick 434 Tractor in South America

Date: 1965
Description: Color photo of a man siting on a McCormick 434 tractor as two men load milk pails onto a wagon. They are standing next to a building.
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Obey and Day on the Farm

Date: 01 1969
Description: As part of a campaign photo shoot, Laurence Day gives candidate David R. Obey a tour of his dairying operation in Marathon County. Day was both a dairy far...
Drawing

Milking Time

Date: 1945
Description: A man sits on a stool while hand milking a Holstein cow in a stall in a red barn. He is wearing work clothes and a hat. A golden cow and a spotted brown co...
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Home from the Cheese Factory

Date: 1932
Description: John Hurda, left, and Russell Wepking pose with milk cans on a farm wagon. Hurda holds the reins to a team of two horses. There are two small sheds behind ...
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Milking Machine

Date: 1912
Description: Unidentified man (inventor?) seated at and showing a foot-powered (?) milking machine. He is outdoors near a stone building.
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The Gorden Berg Farm

Date: 1987
Description: Open house at the Gordon Berg farm where the Bergs show off their Holsteins.
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Stephen Babcock Milking a Cow

Date: 05 1928
Description: Stephen Moulton Babcock seated on a small stool and milking a cow as another man holds a harness around the cow's head. They are in a University of Wiscons...

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