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Buckhorn Cheese Company

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Description: Exterior view of the Buckhorn Cheese Company plant. A sign painted on the exterior of the building reads: "Take One Home."
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ESBMA Fall Festival

Date: 09 10 1930
Description: Two girls standing at the Schoep's Ice Cream and Food Company Inc. booth at the ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) fall festival.
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Alice in Dairyland Contestants

Date: 1951
Description: Marjean Czerwinski of Milwaukee, the 1951 Alice in Dairyland, posing with the other Alice contestants from that year wearing formal dresses. Marjean is 7th...
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Cake Cutting at the Wisconsin Garden Club Jubilee

Date: 10 01 1952
Description: Margaret E. Garnett (Mrs. A.C.), of Madison, program chair of the convention, and Mrs. Linus Boehm of West Salem, president of the state federation, cuttin...
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Couple Cutting Wedding Cake

Date: 04 15 1945
Description: Dr. Forde A. McIver and Ruth Raymond Huegel McIver are cutting their wedding cake. He is the son of E. Roderick McIver, Darlington, S.C., and she is the da...
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Harold E. Stassen President Campaign Tour

Date: 03 06 1948
Description: Harold E. Stassen (center), in Monroe, receiving a block of cheese from District Attorney Rudolph P. Regez.
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Meat Packers Parade Float

Date: 1931
Description: A large float decorated with a farm scene and blanketed with flowers moves down a city street (possibly Michigan Avenue in Chicago). The float is part of t...
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Table Setting

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Description: Table prepared by Wisconsin Farmers' Institute instructor, Edith Clift. There are four place settings, a beef tongue (?), gravy boat, side dishes, and a ce...
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Cranberry Queen

Date: 10 12 1949
Description: Governor Rennebohm is shown as he accepted a freshly baked cranberry pie from Joanne Fiedler, Tomah's cranberry queen. Queen Joanne, members of her court, ...
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Service Station with Vending Machine

Date: 09 04 1967
Description: A service station decorated with a flowers in a window box. On the left is a Pepsi-Cola vending machine.
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Model Dairy Farm

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Description: A model dairy farm maintained by Hoard's "Dairyman Magazine" for experimental purposes. Two women are walking in the driveway near the buildings on the rig...
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Shivers Men with Flowers and Cake

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Description: Three men from the Shivers family pose holding cakes and vases of flowers. One of the men is Tom Shivers and one is Algie Shivers, and the other man is uni...
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Buckhorn Food and Spirits — Exterior

Date: 08 15 1997
Description: "The Buckhorn Restaurant is located several miles southeast of Fox Lake on Cty. Tr. A." From left to right; John Bodden, Ralph Widmer, Shirley Widmer, Rudy...
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Creamery

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Description: View from road of the exterior of the creamery. The main building features a gable roof, a cupola, two chimneys, as well as a garden in front. There are th...
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Knudson Cheese Co.

Date: 1930
Description: Exterior of the Knudson Cheese Company. The lawn is covered with flowers. A man sits on the porch. A railroad car is on the left.
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Halloween

Date: 10 22 1957
Description: A decorated pumpkin serves as a table centerpiece. It is decorated with a face, a hat made of fresh flowers, and attached leaves for hair.
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Zangl Wedding Toast

Date: 02 01 1949
Description: Mary Lou Ruecker and Gene Zangl wedding. This photo was taken at the Turner Hall in Mayville.
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Cutting the Cake

Date: 09 1952
Description: Ralph Widmer and Helen Bodden cut their wedding cake.
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Cutting the Cake

Date: 07 31 1972
Description: Les Beck and Marie Zuehlke wedding.
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Sipping Wedding Champagne

Date: 1962
Description: Young couple drinking champagne, perhaps at their wedding. They are both holding champagne flutes, and the woman is wearing a wedding dress and a veil, and...

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