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Wisconsin Cheese Billboard

Date: 09 28 1942
Description: Highway billboard advertising Wisconsin cheese for the Department of Agriculture and Markets.
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Flipping Pancakes

Date: 06 11 1989
Description: Man flipping pancakes at "farm breakfast" as part of "June is Dairy Month" promotion in Washington County.
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Driver in International Dairy Truck

Date: 09 04 1925
Description: View across street towards a man in the driver's seat of an International Special Delivery dairy truck parked in front of billboards. The International Spe...
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Milk Bar

Date: 09 11 1945
Description: An automobile parked in front of the West Side Fountain operated by John P. Stein and Joseph Scalissi with Borden's Ice Cream, Dr. Pepper, Pepsi and Royal ...
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Men with Big Cheese

Date: 02 26 1936
Description: Five men stand behind a 200 pound wheel of Swiss cheese. Written on wheel is "Madison Milk Producers Cooperative Ass'n." The cheese was a gift for Major Ed...
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Milwaukee Cheese Company Trucks

Date: 06 23 1934
Description: Milwaukee Cheese Company trucks, parked in a row at 301 South Few Street.
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Kennedy Dairy Milk Truck

Date: 12 20 1933
Description: Kennedy Dairy Company, 621-629 W. Washington Avenue, milk truck, advertises their products, Selected Guernsey Milk, Pasteurized Milk, and Kennedy's Ice Cre...
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Bowman Dairy Truck

Date: 09 14 1932
Description: New "stand-drive" Bowman dairy truck.
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Mansfield Caughey Company Dairy

Date: 07 06 1928
Description: Mansfield Caughey Company Dairy, 9 North Brearly Street.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: Two men weighing milk cans on Toledo scales at the Pet Milk Company.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: A man weighing a milk can on an old scale at the Pet Milk Company.
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Borden's Ice Cream Display Case

Date: 09 16 1953
Description: Borden's ice cream in display case, with a person (hand and arm only showing) lifting a carton of ice cream from case, taken for a TV ad.
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Jacob Karlan Block

Date: 1955
Description: The Jacob Karlan block, built in 1893 on the north side of Monroe Street. The Karlan block was erected on the site of the old United States Hotel, adjoinin...
Print

Cheese & Butter Table

Date: 1937
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...
Print

More Wisconsin Butter

Date: 1936
Description: Brochure produced by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and Markets to encourage the consumption of Wisconsin butter.
Print

Yellow Belongs To Butter

Date: 
Description: Reprint from the pages of "Hoard's Dairyman" magazine issued to influence public opinion in Wisconsin where the sale of colored margarine was prohibited by...
Book or Pamphlet

Bluebell Cream Separators

Date: 1913
Description: Page from an "IHC Newspaper and Catalogue Electrotype Service" booklet advertising Bluebell cream separators. Clockwise from top left, the illustration cap...
Book or Pamphlet

Bluebell Cream Separator Advertisements

Date: 1913
Description: Page from an "IHC Newspaper and Catalogue Electrotype Service" booklet depicting two advertisements for the Bluebell cream separator. The advertisement hea...
Photograph

Outdoor Billboard Promoting Dairy Products

Date: 1940
Description: Outdoor advertising billboard rendered from a photograph of Iva Kearney of Ithaca, Wisconsin, holding a glass of milk in her hand.
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Poinsettia Dairy Trucks

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: An International C-35 truck used by Poinsettia Dairy Products, Inc., parked outside a company building. A sign in the shape of a milk bottle advertises ice...

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