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Wisconsin Cheese Billboard

Date: 09 28 1942
Description: Highway billboard advertising Wisconsin cheese for the Department of Agriculture and Markets.
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Richard Nixon and the Honey Queen

Date: 1958
Description: Richard M. Nixon welcomed by Barbara Bird, Honey Queen, and Wisconsin Governor Vernon W. Thomson with cheese package at the Oshkosh Airport.
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Cutting the Cheese

Date: 1950
Description: Wisconsin Department of Agriculture workers cut large blocks of Swiss cheese.
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Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture & Markets Exhibit

Date: 05 03 1934
Description: Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture & Markets exhibit at the Madison Home Show promoting milk and cheese with signs.
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Kraft-Phenix Cheese Exhibit

Date: 06 21 1933
Description: Kraft-Phenix cheese exhibit, Loraine Hotel, at first convention of the Wisconsin Restaurant Owners association.
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Dairy Products Exhibit

Date: 08 1948
Description: The Department of Agriculture's Cheese promotion booth at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The booth urges consumers to "Serve Wisconsin Dated Cheese."...
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Wisconsin Cheese Makers Legislative Dinner

Date: 04 30 1947
Description: Len Kopitzke (right), an officer of the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association, with Assembly Speaker Donald C. MacDowell (R - Soldiers Grove), at a legislati...
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Wisconsin Cheese Makers Legislative Dinner

Date: 04 30 1947
Description: State Senator Rudolph Schlabach (R - La Crosse) with another man at a legislative dinner sponsored by the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association.
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Harold E. Stassen President Campaign Tour

Date: 03 06 1948
Description: Harold E. Stassen (center), in Monroe, receiving a block of cheese from District Attorney Rudolph P. Regez.
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Harold E. Stassen President Campaign Tour

Date: 03 06 1948
Description: Harold E. Stassen at the speaker's table at a campaign luncheon in Monroe. Seated (left to right) are: Mrs. R.L. Rote, Rev. E.C. McCollow, District Attorne...
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Wisconsin State Brand Cheese

Date: 12 02 1948
Description: Four men standing around a large block of cheese decorated with candles and a ribbon. Governor Oscar Rennebohm second from left. Engraved on the cheese are...
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Wisconsin State Brand Cheese

Date: 12 02 1948
Description: Governor Rennebohm, right, with unidentified man and woman standing around a large block of cheese decorated with candles and a ribbon. Engraved on the ch...
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Cheese Day Celebration

Date: 10 24 1930
Description: Celebrating the first "Cheese Day" with a parade. A group of spectators gather on the sidewalk near a truck displaying a banner and stove in the back.
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Good Will Tour

Date: 11 28 1949
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm (left) inspecting the 21 wheels of Marathon County cheddar cheese and keys to Wisconsin's vacation land on the steps of the Wiscon...
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Senator Wiley Presenting Cheese to Senator George

Date: 02 08 1956
Description: Senator Alexander Wiley presenting a block of cheese to Senator George.
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Senator Wiley and World's Largest Cheese

Date: 02 10 1956
Description: Senator Wiley and Mrs. John Nance Garner, wife of the Vice President, stand on either side of a woman holding a basket and sitting on the world's largest c...
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Senators Wiley, Robertson and Jordan with Cheese

Date: 09 27 1962
Description: Senators Wiley (Wisconsin), Robertson (Virginia), and Jordan (North Carolina) posing with a round of blue cheese.
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Govenors Exchange Gifts

Date: 09 25 1952
Description: Wisconsin Governor Walter Kohler presenting a cheese basket to visiting Florida governor Fuller Warren.
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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: 1972
Description: "This is a copy of a photograph taken by Milwaukee Journal staff photographer, Ernie Annheuser and was featured in that paper. Ralph Widmer lets Mayor John...

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