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| Description: | Cheesemakers remove loaves of Brick Cheese that have been floating in the salt brine tank for 14 hours. |
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| Description: | The Foil Pack Brick Cheese is a surface-ripened cheese. Each cheese is washed with whey to enhance the ripening process, during the week-long stay in the c... |
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| Description: | Each Brick Cheese is packed in an airtight bag. A machine draws all the air out of the bag and a clip is applied. By dipping each package in hot water, the... |
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| Description: | When making Cheddar Cheese, slabs of cheese are turned and packed, which is called, "Cheddaring." |
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| Description: | The slabs of cheese are put through a curd mill, which makes the popular Cheddar Cheese Curds. |
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| Description: | Salt is sprinkled on the newly cut cheese curds. |
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| Description: | The finished cheese curds are weighed and poured into forms to make a 40 pound block of cheese. |
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| Description: | CEO Joe Widmer stand in the 40-degree cold storage room where Widmer's ages their award winning Cheddar, Brick, and Colby Cheese. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Exterior of a two-story cheese factory. The building features a set of stairs leading to the second-floor entrance and three chimneys. There is a large pil... |
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| Description: | Horses and wagons carrying aluminum barrels are standing outside the cheese factory. Workers pause from work to pose. Each worker wears overalls and a hat. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View down road towards a car parked in front of the cheese factory. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Deerfield Creamery Company. Two cars are parked in the lot in front of the factory. There are storage tanks in the background on the r... |
| Date: | 10 1968 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland, Bobbie Thoreson, holding a platter of cheese, poses with four men at the World Food Expo. |
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| Description: | Memohead of the Geo. (George) C. Mansfield Company, a manufacturer and dealer in butter, eggs, cheese, poultry and country produce from Johnsons Creek, Wis... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of J.G. Pickett, a manufacturer of and dealer in full cream factory cheese in Picketts Station, Wisconsin, with background images of the head of... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | "This is a copy of a photograph taken by Milwaukee Journal staff photographer, Ernie Annheuser and was featured in that paper. Ralph Widmer lets Mayor John... |
| Date: | 09 28 1948 |
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| Description: | "John O. Widmer shows visitors from Nebraska what Brick Cheese looks like." |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | "Harvey Kamrath washes Brick Cheese at Widmer Cheese Factory." |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | "Cheese display. Varieties are Brick, Cheddar, Colby, Swiss, Provolone & Blue." |
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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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