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Toledo Scale

Date: 01 08 1928
Description: Man using a Toledo scale at the Mernick Dairy.
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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: A man weighing a large container on a Toledo platform scale at the Federation Creamery.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: Two men weighing milk cans on Toledo scales at the Pet Milk Company.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: A man weighing a milk can on an old scale at the Pet Milk Company.
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Madison Dairy Laboratory

Date: 01 09 1946
Description: Two men performing a test in a laboratory at the Madison Dairy, 1018 East Washington Avenue.
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Spitler Bros. Dairy

Date: 1937
Description: Two men are standing in a room with a cooler and milking equipment. Original caption identifies the equipment as "McCormick-Deering 6 Can Cooler and Mc[Cor...
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Severson Milk Company Drivers Receive Safe Driving Awards

Date: 08 12 1949
Description: Three drivers for the Severson Milk Company, Albion, receive awards for safe driving at their annual supper held at the Heidelberg Hofbrau restaurant in Ma...
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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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Men in Dairy Barn

Date: 12 16 1946
Description: Two men empty buckets of milk into cans in a dairy barn. A row of cows standing in stalls is in the background. The original caption reads: "McD [McCormick...
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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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Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Office

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Description: CEO Joe Widmer and Office Manager, Kristine Miescke, go over reports in their office. Widmer's ships cheese to every state in the union.
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Cream Separator

Date: 11 1919
Description: Mrs. Irving Bielby operating a cream separator run by a gasoline engine at Babcock farm.
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Woman Using Cream Separator

Date: 10 1923
Description: A woman using a cheesecloth to strain the contents of a bucket into a cream separator at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm (Harvester Fa...
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Ice Cream Shop Interior

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Description: The interior of an ice cream shop, possibly Farmdale ice Cream Shop. Employees pose behind the long counters in uniform and several customers are seated at...
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Workers Packing Ice Cream Sticks in Shipping Boxes

Date: 1977
Description: Two women are standing at the end of a machine which is packaging Lilly Ice Cream sticks. The machine is placing ice cream sticks in individual wrappers, a...
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Worker at Milk Bottle Filling Station

Date: 1977
Description: A man is standing near a machine filling milk bottles. A conveyor line in front of him is bringing empty milk bottles to the machine where they are filled ...
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Woman Posing with Cheese

Date: 1958
Description: Promotional studio portrait of a woman standing and wearing a striped shirt, short apron, a paper hat and high heels, posing with her chin on her hands on ...

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