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| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Severtson Swiss Cheese Factory. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Advertising brochure for Wisconsin's dairy industry issued by the State Department of Agriculture. It depicts Wisconsin as the table upon which cheese and... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Ernest Albert Hilfiker (1905-1993) poses with copper kettles in the making room of the Tuscobia cheese factory. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Group of people standing outside of the Tuscobia Cheese factory. |
| Date: | 12 02 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 07 1979 |
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| Description: | Cheesemaker Laurel Ettien, measuring the weight of cheese curd after it was separated from the whey. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| 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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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 30 1964 |
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| 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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| Description: | Exterior of the Brodhead Cheese Factory purchased in 1904/5 by Casper Jaggi. The two images show changes made to building after the Casper Jaggi building. ... |
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| Description: | Exterior of Brodhead Cheese Factory with man standing in front. The first Jaggi family factory was known as County Line Co. The business shipped cheese in ... |
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| Description: | A man wearing Swiss clothing making cheese in Switzerland. |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Jorden Prairie Cheese Factory showing Swiss cheese presses on a bench. |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn wagons, also known as milk buggies, dropping off cans of milk at the country cheese factory during summer. |
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| Description: | Two men working in a vat that has been filled with pasteurized milk and to which rennet (an extract from a calf's stomach) has been added, which coagulates... |
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| Description: | The milk, after cutting, has been transformed into curds and whey. The curds are comprised of the solids in the milk and the remaining whey is the liquid p... |
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| Description: | Workers are busy filling the stainless steel Brick Cheese forms with curds. |
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| Description: | Each Brick of cheese weighs out at approximately 5 pounds. The general rule of thumb is that it takes 10 pounds of milk to produce 1 pound of cheese. A 5 p... |
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| Description: | After the curds are leveled off in each form, they are turned so that each side of the Brick is pressed. During the course of the day, each form is turned ... |
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| Description: | Brick Cheese derives its name from the bricks used to press the curds. |
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