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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.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Ball Bearing Cream Separators

Date: 1935
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for "McCormick-Deering Ball Bearing Cream Separators with Stainless Steel Discs." Features a photograph of a man using a c...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Woman Operating Cream Separator

Date: 1919
Description: Mrs. Robert Viall is using a gasoline engine to run a cream separator on the Babcock farm. The cream separator is driven by belts that are attached to the ...
Photograph

Farmer Milking Cow Using Machine

Date: 
Description: A farmer kneels next to a dairy cow in a barn. He is using a portable milking machine. A milk can sits in the foreground.
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Milking Machine

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

Children Visit the Farm

Date: 04 1987
Description: City children visit the O'Connor farm for a hands-on experience.

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