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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 22 1928
Description: Man weighing a box on a Toledo scale at the Belmont Creamery.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: A man is weighing a bucket on an old scale at the Evans Creamery.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: A man weighing a large container on a Toledo platform scale at the Federation Creamery.
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Wisconsin Creamery

Date: 1910
Description: Farmers and horse-drawn wagons loaded with milk cans pose in front of a Wisconsin creamery.
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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.
Print

Horlick's Food Company Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Horlick's Food Company of Racine, Wisconsin, from the 1890s, showing the Horlick's factory, a dairy maid with a cow and a container of Ho...
Photograph

Creamery

Date: 1922
Description: Creamery and outbuildings in a rural area.
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Milking the Cows

Date: 1929
Description: A woman runs the milking operation at the G.L. Hamon dairy farm.
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Betsey Busied by Bossy's Butter

Date: 1905
Description: Woman churning butter.
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International D-30 Truck

Date: 1938
Description: Men loading cases of eggs onto an International D-30 truck parked in front of Geo. F. Wagner & Co. Inc. The truck has a farm scene painted on the side, inc...
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Milking the Cows

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Description: Two men are sitting on stools milking cows in a barnyard within a log fence enclosure. Milking was usually done outside during the 19th century so in this ...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Milk Coolers

Date: 1939
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering milk coolers, "the only milk cooler with pneumatic water agitation." Includes an illustration ...
Postcard

Prairie Farm Creamery

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Description: Exterior of the Prairie Farm Creamery with horse-drawn wagons in front. Caption reads: "Prairie Farm Creamery, Pr. Farm, Wis."
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William Dempster Hoard

Date: 1912
Description: A head and shoulders portrait of William Dempster Hoard (1836-1918).
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Man on Wagon with Milk Cans

Date: 1872
Description: A farmer driving a horse-drawn wagon with milk cans. Behind him is a frame structure, possibly a cheese factory, with a porch and a full door on the second...
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Four Views of Hatchville

Date: 
Description: Composite of four images of Hatchville, including E.D. Karnes store and the Co-Operative Creamery.
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Hoard's Dairy Farm

Date: 1920
Description: View across field toward Hoard's dairy farm with silos, barns, and trees.
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Bulk Milk Truck

Date: 
Description: A bulk milk truck is parked in a farm yard near a barn as three men stand by.
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Loading Milk Cans

Date: 1937
Description: A man unloads milk cans from a Ford Model T pickup truck at a creamery receiving station.
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Milk Booth at the State Fair

Date: 1950
Description: The Department of Agriculture's "All You Can Drink for Ten Cents" milk booth at the Wisconsin State Fair. On the roof is a cow crafted from a bale of hay. ...

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