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Toledo Scale

Date: 06 13 1928
Description: Man using a small Toledo scale at H.M. Zander Creamery.
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Precison Cutting

Date: 1950
Description: Two men operate a machine that uses wires to make equal portions out of a large slab of butter.
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Prairie Farm Creamery

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Description: Exterior of the Prairie Farm Creamery with horse-drawn wagons in front. Caption reads: "Prairie Farm Creamery, Pr. Farm, Wis."
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Otto Wolff at Butter Churn

Date: 05 08 1945
Description: Otto Wolff, supervisior of butter making for the Madison Dairy Produce Company, 1018 East Washington Avenue, at the butter churn. Left to right: Otto Wolff...
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Milk Cooler at Walter & Thompson

Date: 1937
Description: Two men standing next to a McCormick-Deering cooler at Walter & Thompson, an International Harvester dealership. The man pointing to the cooler is P.H. Tho...
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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...
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Bottling Milk

Date: 1938
Description: Two dairy workers run a milk bottling machine at Golden Guernsey Dairy.
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Man Weighing Milk

Date: 1947
Description: A man writes information on a chart as he weighs a can of milk in a barn. A row of cows standing in stalls is behind him. The man may be working at Interna...
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Joe Santana Milking Cows

Date: 1946
Description: Joe Santana kneels beside a dairy cow in a barn to use a McCormick-Deering milker. The original caption reads: "Joe Santana, 326-S, Studebaker St., at Norw...
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Man Entering Walk-In Cooler

Date: 1940
Description: A man carrying milk bottles stands at the doorway to a walk-in cooler at the Eubanks Dairy.
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Man Milking Cows

Date: 1940
Description: Roger Thomas uses a McCormick-Deering milker on a Holstein cow at the Lee Thomas farm.
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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.
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Steffen's Truck

Date: 03 06 1935
Description: A man loads milk cans onto the back of an International truck used by Steffen's Ice Cream. Signs in the background read: "Steffen's Sunshine Dairy Products...
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Men with Cream Separator

Date: 1925
Description: A man is emptying a pail into a Number 4 electric cream separator in a shed on the farm of John Doanan. Mr. Doanan is standing with a pail in the foregroun...
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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...
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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...
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars

Date: 02 10 1978
Description: "Widmer's Cheese Cellars. (l-r) Harvey Kamrath, Ralph, Joe, and John Widmer scoop brick cheese curds out of the vat. Widmers are now in their 56th year of ...
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Widmer Cheese Factory

Date: 1968
Description: "Paul Koll loads empty milk cans at Widmer Cheese Factory."
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Condensed Milk Factory

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Description: Exterior of a two-story condensed milk factory. Two men are driving horse-drawn wagons on the road on the left. Other men are under a roof covered loading ...
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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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