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| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | View of two men wearing work clothes, wearing overalls and hats, working at a machine, mostly likely making cheese curds. Another man wearing a suit and ti... |
| Date: | 05 1980 |
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| Description: | "On a hillside off McArthur Road, waste water from Widmer Cheese Factory is dumped into a ridge & furrow disposal system." |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Blue Moon Foods, Inc., of Thorp, Wisconsin, with a border of waves, a blue sailboat, and a blue moon, and a wheel of Gold-N-Rich cheese, and ... |
| Date: | 03 1975 |
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| Description: | "For pumping out the milk at each farm, a small gas engine was used to power the truck's pump. Myron Weninger checks the pump on the Widmer Cheese bulk tru... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | "Jerry Adelmeyer picks up whey at Widmer Cheese Factory and transports it to the slurry tank on his farm." |
| Date: | 08 1979 |
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| Description: | "Widmer Cheese employees. Front; Pat Geschke, Harvey Kamrath, Joe- John- Ralph- Jim Widmer." |
| Date: | 05 1986 |
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| Description: | "An image of Widmer's Cheese Factory adorned a Theresa Lions Club Pin." |
| Date: | 10 1990 |
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| Description: | "Mike Jacobs of Milwaukee Journal TV4 interviews Ralph Widmer." |
| Date: | 02 02 1993 |
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| Description: | "Tour guide, Ralph Widmer, displays a Swiss cow bell to visiting AFS students at Widmer's Cheese Factory. Students were from Thailand, Yugoslavia, Germany,... |
| Date: | 02 1995 |
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| Description: | Janet Wendling and Marilyn Zingsheim package brick cheese at Widmer Cheese. |
| Date: | 08 1995 |
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| Description: | "Parade in Theresa, corner of Milwaukee and Henni Street." Image features the Widmer cheese wagon. |
| Date: | 10 1996 |
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| Description: | "Mayville Audubon Days bike riders from Ft. Atkinson take a break at Widmer's Cheese." |
| Date: | 1991 |
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| Description: | An original cartoon given to Ralph Widmer by the famous cartoonist, Walt Wetterberg, whose cartoon, "Ada The Aryshire," appears regularly in the "Farm Jour... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Cheesemakers in a small local factory. The man on the right is stirring a large kettle. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a cheese factory, with two men posing. Caption on back reads in part: "Cooking the milk in copper-lined vats." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Shrubs in full bloom and a vigorous vine growing along the eaves create a picturesque view of a cheese factory. Typically, the long narrow building is buil... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Two people are working with cheese curds. |
| Date: | 06 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Cheese makers Alfred Abplanalp (right) and Bernard Cupp perform the old-time Swiss cheese making method of using cheese cloth to skim the curd from the top... |
| Date: | 06 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Cheese makers Bernard Cupp (right) and Alfred Abplanalp (left) completing the process of skimming curd from a vault of whey by lifting the cheese cloth bag... |
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