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Milking machine

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Description: Man in hat posing with milking machine.
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Rockdale Creamery

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

IH "Milker Service Day" Advertising Poster

Date: 1950
Description: Advertising poster promoting "Milker Service Day" at International Harvester dealerships. Includes the text: "Our trained milker service men will adjust an...
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Waiting For Pure Fresh Milk

Date: 1889
Description: Stereograph of a posed scene showing a woman milking a cow as two other women stand waiting at an open barn door. On the left a man at a hand-pump is behin...
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Old Scale

Date: 06 13 1928
Description: Man using an old scale at the H.M. Zander Creamery.
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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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Bulk Milk Truck

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Description: A bulk milk truck is parked in a farm yard near a barn as three men stand by.
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Loading Milk Cans

Date: 1937
Description: A man unloads milk cans from a Ford Model T pickup truck at a creamery receiving station.
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Man Milking Cow

Date: 04 1924
Description: A man milks a cow inside a barn on Ament farm.
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Individuals Working on a Farm

Date: 08 26 1917
Description: Barn, silos and cows at a farm. There are men attending to the cows, while the women and children are attending to the milk cans.
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Bryant Dairy Farm

Date: 07 21 1947
Description: Two men showing a farmer milking equipment.
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Farmer in Barnyard with Milk Cans

Date: 1920
Description: A farmer stands in a barnyard holding a milk can.
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Milk Cooler Assembly Line

Date: 03 29 1937
Description: Factory workers assemble milk coolers at the West Pullman Works.
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Farmer with Milk Can in Wheelbarrow

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Description: A farmer hauling a milk can on a wheelbarrow.
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Truck Driver William J. Lankford

Date: 03 16 1936
Description: Original caption reads: "Wm. J. Lankford - safe driver Gateway City Transfer Co. Taken by Madison Branch House." Mr. Lankford was likely the winner of a sa...
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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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Edgar C. Lyman with Milk Pails

Date: 1941
Description: Edgar C. Lyman stands on a platform and uses a stainless steel pail to pour milk into a supply tank.
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Allendale Farm Truck

Date: 1937
Description: A man near the open door of a farm building loads milk pails into the back of an International D-15 pickup truck used by the Allendale Farm.
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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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Men with McCormick-Deering Milker

Date: 10 06 1937
Description: Mr. C.L. Thompson from the Thompson Hardware Company demonstrates a McCormick-Deering milker to an unidentified man and dairyman Wayne Wakefield. The men s...

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