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Wisconsin State Fair Cheese Display

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Description: Wisconsin State Fair display promoting Wisconsin "dated" cheese sponsored by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture. The display features a shelf full of ...
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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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Welcome To America's Dairyland

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Description: Wisconsin Department of Agriculture billboard promoting Wisconsin cheese with a picture of several cows on a farm.
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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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Cooking Demonstration at Women's Building

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Description: Cooking demonstration in the Women's Building at the Wisconsin State Fair, featuring a cheese appetizer.
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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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Cheese Being Served to University of Wisconsin Basketball Team

Date: 03 19 1947
Description: Woman serving cheese to members of the University of Wisconsin championship basketball team members at the train depot before their departure for the NCAA ...
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Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association Contest Winners

Date: 1958
Description: Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association Contest winners Evan Appleman, Carl Huber, Fred Beuer, and Werner Zimmerman, Jr. posing with their entries.
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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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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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Preparing Cheese Molds

Date: 10 1929
Description: A man gets brick molds ready as part of the process of making cheese at the Wisconsin Cheese Producers Federation.
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Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire

Date: 1952
Description: Margaret McGuire, named the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948, promotes Wisconsin 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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Reporter Sampling Cheese

Date: 11 12 1958
Description: Wisconsin State Journal reporter, Marcia Crowley, at a cheese display at the 67th annual meeting of the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association. She is ...
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Stamping Cheeses

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Description: A male worker in a cheese-making factory places a Wisconsin stamp on cheeses.
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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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Reporter Sampling Cheese

Date: 11 12 1958
Description: Wisconsin State Journal reporter, Marcia Crowley, at a cheese display at the 67th annual meeting of the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association. She is ...
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Reporter Sampling Cheese

Date: 11 12 1958
Description: Wisconsin State Journal reporter, Marcia Crowley, at a cheese display at the 67th annual meeting of the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association. She is ...
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Wheels of Wisconsin Cheese

Date: 1948
Description: Wheels of cheese stacked for curing at a cheese factory.
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Man with "Goliath" Cheese

Date: 1940
Description: Man posed next to a truck hauling the world's biggest cheese, named "Goliath" by The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture. Probably taken at the Wisconsin S...

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