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Cheese Factory
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View across harvested field shocks of grain towards the long, two-story brick Carl Marty & Co. factory, featuring a large smokestack and a water tower. There are cars parked in a lot on the left. Painted signage on the building advertises Swiss cheese, butter, cream cheese and limburger. On the reverse of the print is written: "Largest Swiss Cheese Manufacturing Company in the world — Monroe."
July 1936
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