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Wisconsin Council of Agriculture Exhibit

Date: 1938
Description: The Wisconsin Council of Agriculture exhibit at the 1938 Wisconsin State Fair.
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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 State Fair

Date: 08 11 1954
Description: A woman demonstrates a diet with dairy foods at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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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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Wisconsin Gold Nuggets Exhibit

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Description: Two scouts look at a dairy exibit entitled Wisconsin Gold Nuggets at the Wisconsin State Fair. From left to right are Warren Sheard of Troop 35 in Burlingt...
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Wisconsin Creamery

Date: 1910
Description: Farmers and horse-drawn wagons loaded with milk cans pose in front of a Wisconsin creamery.
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Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 08 1993
Description: "One of the staples at the Wisconsin State Fair is cream puffs. Shirley Widmer is enjoying one."
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Butter Making Class

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Description: Students dressed in white use large butter churns in a butter making class, probably at the University of Wisconsin Dairy School.
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Alice in Dairyland, Merrie Barney

Date: 1959
Description: Merrie Barney, the 1959 Alice in Dairyland, helps a young boy eating a cream puff, always a favorite treat at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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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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Milk Dispenser

Date: 1955
Description: Mr. Robot, a coin operated milk vending machine promoted by the Wisconsin Dairy Caravan, dispenses milk into a paper cup.
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William Horlick

Date: 1910
Description: Three-quarter length outdoor portrait of William Horlick (1846-1936), co-founder of Horlick's Malted Milk Company of Racine, Wisconsin.
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Bancroft Dairy

Date: 05 1981
Description: Exterior view of building on 1010 South Park Street.
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Eating at the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 07 30 1984
Description: Bertha Hynek of Allenton is eating an ice cream cone while her grandson, Wesley Priesgen, 10, works on an ear of roasted corn.
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Horlick's Malted Milk Depot

Date: 03 30 1933
Description: Horlick's Malted Milk Corporation depot with receiving trucks.
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Alice in Dairyland and Dairy Princesses

Date: 1955
Description: The 1955 Alice in Dairyland, Barbara Brown, stands with four Alice Princesses in front of a Wisconsin Department of Agriculture/American Dairy Association ...
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Cold Cream

Date: 01 1977
Description: Close-up of a child in a knitted balaclava and mittens licking an ice cream cone.
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Cream Wagon

Date: 07 09 1895
Description: Man driving a cream wagon pulled by a team of horses and loaded with dairy products.
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Senator Roseleip Taking Taste Test

Date: 06 24 1965
Description: Senator Gorden Roseleip taking the oleo/butter taste test, administered by Senator Martin Schreiber.
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Ice Cream Eating Contest

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Description: Actor Jack Carson and two boys competing in an ice cream eating contest at the State Fair. The boys are identified as John Schroeder of West Bend and Jacki...

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