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Dipping the Curd

Date: 1914
Description: A worker at the Jorden Cheese factory dips curd to make swiss cheese.
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Hooping the Curd

Date: 1914
Description: Workers hooping the curd to make cheddar cheese at the Plymouth Cheese factory.
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Pressing Curd

Date: 1941
Description: Two men pressing the curd into a form at the Swiss Cheese Factory.
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Cheese in Storage

Date: 1952
Description: Cheesemaker standing on ladder putting cheese on storage shelf, along with rows of other cheeses.
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Workers Paraffining Cheese

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Description: Workers paraffining cheese at the Sheboygan County Farmers' Coop cheese factory.
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Making Cheese

Date: 10 1929
Description: Corner of Swiss cheese-making room, showing a cheesemaker stirring ingredients in a copper kettle.
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View of Making Room

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Description: Interior view of the Brodhead Cheese Factory with Kenneth Clark working at the kettles.
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Making Room

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Description: Two men in the Brodhead Cheese Factory in a room that contains a separator, vats and stirrers.
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Kenneth Clark and Casper Jaggi with Vats

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Description: Kenneth Clark and Casper Jaggi standing next to vats at the Brodhead cheese factory.
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Brodhead Cheesemaking Room

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Description: Interior of the Brodhead Cheese Factory with a man by a vat.
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Dipping Cheese

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Description: Men at the Brodhead Cheese Factory closing the cloth after dipping the cheese.
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Cheese Factory

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Description: Building thought to be a cheese factory, with workers and horse-drawn delivery wagons in the front.
Postcard

Greetings From Monroe, Wis.

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Description: A postcard with the text "Greetings From Monroe, Wis.," as well as images including postcard views of Wisconsin's pioneer cheese maker Niklaus Gerber, a co...
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Severtson Swiss Cheese Factory

Date: 1947
Description: Exterior of the Severtson Swiss Cheese Factory.
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Ernest Albert Hilfiker, Cheesemaker

Date: 1950
Description: Ernest Albert Hilfiker (1905-1993) poses with copper kettles in the making room of the Tuscobia cheese factory.
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Tuscobia Cheese Factory

Date: 1926
Description: Group of people standing outside of the Tuscobia Cheese factory.
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Weighing the Curd

Date: 11 07 1979
Description: Cheesemaker Laurel Ettien, measuring the weight of cheese curd after it was separated from the whey.
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Dairy Equipment on Hazen Pettit Farm

Date: 1937
Description: Rooms with bottles, table, canisters and other dairying equipment on the Hazen Pettit farm. Original caption states: "The vat in the foreground is used fo...
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Casper Jaggi and Workers

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Description: Casper Jaggi, on right, with cheese harp, and three brothers of the Erb family, (holding stirrers), standing outdoors at the Coldren Cheese factory. They a...
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Hilltop Cheese Factory

Date: 05 30 1964
Description: Landscape view from field of a rolling countryside. A small cheese factory resides on a slope, with a tree, a windmill, two cars and a tractor near an outb...

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