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Poster

Primrose Cream Separator Advertising Poster

Date: 1922
Description: Advertising poster for the Primrose cream separator featuring a color illustration of a cow and a cream separator under the text: "Bring Back Prosperity By...
Photograph

Waiting For Pure Fresh Milk

Date: 1889
Description: Stereograph of a posed scene showing a woman milking a cow as two other women stand waiting at an open barn door. On the left a man at a hand-pump is behin...
Photograph

Farmer Milking Cow

Date: 03 1924
Description: Man sitting on a crate milking a cow by hand inside a barn on the farm of Hal Ament.
Photograph

Farmers in Field with Dairy Cattle

Date: 1924
Description: Three farmers standing in field among a herd of dairy cows (Holsteins).
Photograph

Cathryn Haight Milking Cow

Date: 05 12 1933
Description: Cathryn (Mrs. Ben) Haight sitting on a stool milking a cow by hand on the Capitol View Farm, 5380 Lacy Road.
Photograph

Champion Cow Milker

Date: 10 28 1931
Description: A young woman is demonstrating her championship cow-milking skills as she is sitting on a low stool and milking a Holstein cow. A person (out of frame) is ...
Print

Horlick's Food Company Letterhead

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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

Milking the Cows

Date: 1929
Description: A woman runs the milking operation at the G.L. Hamon dairy farm.
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen Jenks

Date: 08 26 1953
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen Jenks, stands with a cow on a float representing the Golden Guernsey Dairy Co-op in the Dairy Parade at the Wisconsin State ...
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen Jenks

Date: 08 22 1953
Description: Mary Ellen Jenks, Alice in Dairyland in 1953, dressed in a formal gown, standing with a cow, a clown, and another woman in a Golden Guernsey display.
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland with Cow

Date: 1952
Description: Beverly Steffen, the 1952 Alice in Dairyland, stands beside a cow at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Photograph

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 Milkers Catalog

Date: 1939
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick-Deering milking machines featuring cows and a milker on a blue background.
Photograph

William Dempster Hoard

Date: 1912
Description: A head and shoulders portrait of William Dempster Hoard (1836-1918).
Book or Pamphlet

Tuberculosis Must Go

Date: 05 25 1928
Description: Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to help prevent the spread of tuberculosis. Includes the text: ...
Print

Cow Brand Saleratus

Date: 
Description: Trade card advertising Dwight's celebrated Cow Brand of Soda and Saleratus. Saleratus is an early name for baking powder.
Print

Yellow Belongs To Butter

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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...
Poster

Bluebell Cream Harvester Calendar

Date: 1913
Description: Calendar advertising International Harvester's Bluebell brand Cream Harvester (more commonly called a cream separator). Features a large illustration of tw...
Photograph

"Let's Get a Good Cow"

Date: 02 1914
Description: A woman wearing a bonnet and apron kneeling in a field to milk a cow.
Print

Cattle Fair Panorama

Date: 10 24 1863
Description: Panoramic wood-engraving of a cattle fair in New Haven, after a sketch by H.C. Curtis. Caption reads: "Cattle Show and Agricultural Faib [sic] at Ha...

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