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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...
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Rockdale Creamery

Date: 1900
Description: Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery.
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Wisconsin Creamery

Date: 1910
Description: Farmers and horse-drawn wagons loaded with milk cans pose in front of a Wisconsin creamery.
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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.
Postcard

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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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...
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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...
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Jack Carson and Dairy Queen

Date: 1947
Description: Actor Jack Carson congratulating the winner of the Wisconsin Dairy Queen at the Wisconsin State Fair, while another competitor is looking on.
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Cream Separator Delivery

Date: 04 21 1928
Description: Men, most likely International Harvester dealers, and trucks gathered around a railroad boxcar with opened doors. The boxcar and a truck are adorned with p...
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McCormick-Deering Milk Cooler Designer

Date: 08 23 1935
Description: Mr. Borgut, designer of the McCormick-Deering milk cooler, explains his product to eight Detroit dairy equipment salesmen at International Harvester's West...
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Casper Jaggi and Workers

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Description: Casper Jaggi, on right, with cheese harp, and three brothers of the Erb family, (holding stirrers), standing outdoors at the Coldren Cheese factory. They a...
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Giese Barn

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Description: Gary and Sue Giese live at W1161 Zion Church Road (Section 27). Their granddaughter is Sydney Comstock. The Giese's milk 30 cows that produce about 1,000 l...
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Alice in Dairyland

Date: 10 1968
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Bobbie Thoreson, holding a platter of cheese, poses with four men at the World Food Expo.
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Brick Cheese at Widmer Cheese

Date: 09 28 1948
Description: "John O. Widmer shows visitors from Nebraska what Brick Cheese looks like."
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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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Mayville Audubon Days

Date: 10 1996
Description: "Mayville Audubon Days bike riders from Ft. Atkinson take a break at Widmer's Cheese."
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"A Century of Progress" Mechanical Cow

Date: 1933
Description: A group of three women are posing with a mechanical cow and milker in the International Harvester exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's fair.

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