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Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture & Markets Exhibit

Date: 05 03 1934
Description: Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture & Markets exhibit at the Madison Home Show promoting milk and cheese with signs.
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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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Annual Meeting of Wisconsin Cheese Makers' Association

Date: 11 04 1958
Description: The 67th annual meeting of the Wisconsin Cheese Makers' Association is held in Madison at the Hotel Loraine. The meeting included the 2nd annual World's Ch...
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Kraft Cheese Display

Date: 12 08 1933
Description: A Kraft cheese display at the Kroger Store located at 3 Pinckney Street.
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We Saw You . . . Watching Dairy Caravan

Date: 02 01 1955
Description: School children from the Madison area are among the first visitors at the opening of the $100,000 Dairy Caravan at the State Capitol. Maple Grove pupils ob...
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Swiss Center Cheese

Date: 09 23 1954
Description: Cheese gift box from Swiss Center Cheese, "Wisconsin's Famous Cheese House," located at 2805 University Avenue.
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Pressing Curd

Date: 1941
Description: Two men pressing the curd into a form at the Swiss Cheese Factory.
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Zor Shrine Tour of Hawaii

Date: 04 05 1958
Description: Rufus Wells, back, and Leo W. Roethe, right, standing beside the 350 pounds of cheese the Madison Zor Shrine group took with them on their tour of Hawaii. ...
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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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Ronald Johnson with Winning Cheese

Date: 11 14 1958
Description: Ronald E. Johnson of Mount Sterling, with world champion cheddar cheese at the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association Contest.
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Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association Contest Winners

Date: 1958
Description: Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association Contest winners Evan Appleman, Carl Huber, Fred Beuer, and Werner Zimmerman, Jr. posing with their entries.
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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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Kraft-Phenix Cheese Exhibit

Date: 06 21 1933
Description: Kraft-Phenix cheese exhibit, Loraine Hotel, at first convention of the Wisconsin Restaurant Owners association.
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Milwaukee Cheese Company

Date: 08 26 1954
Description: Exterior view of the Milwaukee Cheese Company building at 1133 East Wilson Street. The company was founded by the Zwicky Brothers in 1912 and they opened ...
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McCoy's Ice Cream Shop

Date: 02 22 1938
Description: Two clerks and a customer in McCoy's Ice Cream Shop, 507 State Street, with Oscar Mayer Coolerator food display case.
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Govenors Exchange Gifts

Date: 09 25 1952
Description: Wisconsin Governor Walter Kohler presenting a cheese basket to visiting Florida governor Fuller Warren.
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Alice in Dairyland

Date: 10 1968
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Bobbie Thoreson, holding a platter of cheese, poses with four men at the World Food Expo.
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Swiss Center

Date: 09 23 1954
Description: "Swiss Center," a false building front in the style of a Swiss chalet taken for Swiss Center, a Wisconsin natural cheese gift box mail order company locate...
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Ovens of Brittany Lunch and Dinner Menu

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Description: Front cover and interior of menu for the Ovens of Brittany bakery and restaurant on Monroe Street. Features illustrations of a jar of utensils, bread, chee...
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Cheese Poster

Date: 09 05 1940
Description: Cheese advertising poster - Woman holding cheese platter and the words "Say Merry Christmas with Aged Select Natural Wisconsin Cheese in gift packs $1.00 p...

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