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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."
Photograph

Cut Fence

Date: 09 10 1963
Description: A boy repairing the fence at the Golden Guernsey Dairy cooperative McKerrow Farms.
Photograph

Hoard's Dairy Farm

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

Wisconsin Centennial Stamp Design

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Description: Design for Wisconsin Centennial 3 cent postage stamp featuring a dairy and agriculture theme.
Postcard

Van Camp Condensed Milk Factory

Date: 1910
Description: View of the Van Camp Condensed Milk Factory. A driveway on the right leads up a small hill to the right side of the factory. Caption reads: "Van Camp Conde...
Map or Atlas

Sectional Map of Chippewa, Clark, Taylor, and Rusk Counties

Date: 1910
Description: "There never was but one Crop of Land. There never will be another." Shows towns, boundaries, roads, schoolhouses, sawmills, cheese factories, and creameri...
Photograph

Men Work with Milk Cans and Cooler

Date: 1937
Description: Two men are working with milk cans and buckets near a McCormick-Deering milk cooler. The original caption reads: "James McFarland," which may refer to the ...
Photograph

Dairy Equipment on Hazen Pettit Farm

Date: 1937
Description: Rooms with bottles, table, canisters and other dairying equipment on the Hazen Pettit farm. Original caption states: "The vat in the foreground is used fo...
Photograph

Casper Jaggi and his Dog

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Description: Hand-colored image of Casper Jaggi and his dog, ready to deliver a load of Swiss cheese to Monticello. He was delivering 6 tubs of Swiss cheese, each weigh...
Photograph

Casper Jaggi and Workers

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Description: Casper Jaggi, on right, with cheese harp, and three brothers of the Erb family, (holding stirrers), standing outdoors at the Coldren Cheese factory. They a...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Milk Cooler Demonstration

Date: 10 06 1937
Description: C.L. Thompson, a McCormick-Deering dealer explains a milk cooler, which is loaded on a trailer hauled by an International truck, to Wayne Wakefield. Both m...
Photograph

Men with McCormick-Deering Milker

Date: 10 06 1937
Description: Mr. C.L. Thompson from the Thompson Hardware Company demonstrates a McCormick-Deering milker to an unidentified man and dairyman Wayne Wakefield. The men s...
Photograph

Man Weighing Milk

Date: 1947
Description: A man writes information on a chart as he weighs a can of milk in a barn. A row of cows standing in stalls is behind him. The man may be working at Interna...
Photograph

Men in Dairy Barn

Date: 12 16 1946
Description: Two men empty buckets of milk into cans in a dairy barn. A row of cows standing in stalls is in the background. The original caption reads: "McD [McCormick...
Photograph

Joe Santana Milking Cows

Date: 1946
Description: Joe Santana kneels beside a dairy cow in a barn to use a McCormick-Deering milker. The original caption reads: "Joe Santana, 326-S, Studebaker St., at Norw...
Photograph

Man Milking Cows

Date: 1940
Description: Roger Thomas uses a McCormick-Deering milker on a Holstein cow at the Lee Thomas farm.
Photograph

Borden's Truck

Date: 1950
Description: Juan B. Marquez, driver of an International L-150 truck for Borden's Fine Dairy Products, delivers a crate of dairy products to El Aguila Groceries. The bu...
Photograph

Men with Cream Separator

Date: 1925
Description: A man is emptying a pail into a Number 4 electric cream separator in a shed on the farm of John Doanan. Mr. Doanan is standing with a pail in the foregroun...
Photograph

Cream Separator at Farmhouse

Date: 1923
Description: A woman wearing an apron is standing on the porch of a farmhouse to look at a McCormick cream separator at the base of the stairs. Nearby a man wearing ove...
Painting

The Cheese Factory

Date: 
Description: Horse-drawn wagons, also known as milk buggies, dropping off cans of milk at the country cheese factory during summer.

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