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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...
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Woman Using Cream Separator

Date: 07 28 1924
Description: Mrs. Frances Lauth operating an engine-driven Primrose Cream Separator on Hinsdale Farm.
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Obey and Day on the Farm

Date: 01 1969
Description: As part of a campaign photo shoot, Laurence Day gives candidate David R. Obey a tour of his dairying operation in Marathon County. Day was both a dairy far...
Book or Pamphlet

The Cow, the Mother of Prosperity

Date: 1921
Description: Cover illustration for a publication by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department featuring a photograph of a cow chewing hay under the t...
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.
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Milking Holsteins

Date: 1932
Description: View inside barn of Holsteins lined up for milking.
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Dairying Equipment

Date: 09 26 1924
Description: View of two stands in a room, one holding a metal container with a spout. Milk pails are sitting along the wall in the background, and the text on the room...
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Consumer's Co-op Dairy

Date: 01 12 1937
Description: Consumer's Co-op Dairy. Interior view of vats.
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Engine Powered Cream Separator

Date: 1914
Description: Titan Jr. engine powering a cream separator in a farm building.
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Engine Powered Cream Separator

Date: 1914
Description: Titan Jr. engine powering a cream separator in a farm building.
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Dairy Barn with Cows

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Interior view of a large dairy barn with cows. A man is standing in the background.
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Farmer Pouring Milk into McCormick-Deering Cream Separator

Date: 07 07 1925
Description: Man pouring milk into a McCormick-Deering cream separator.
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Dairying Display at Dairy Cattle Congress

Date: 1931
Description: A mechanical(?) cow standing on a platform demonstrates the use of a McCormick-Deering milker at the Dairy Cattle Congress. There are paintings of agricult...
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland, Barbara Brown

Date: 1955
Description: Alice in Dairyland for 1955, Barbara Brown, milking a cow by hand.
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Bryant Dairy Farm

Date: 07 21 1947
Description: Two men showing a farmer milking equipment.
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McCormick Primrose Cream Separator

Date: 09 03 1924
Description: A McCormick Primrose cream separator sitting in the corner of a room.
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Cheese in Storage

Date: 1952
Description: Cheesemaker standing on ladder putting cheese on storage shelf, along with rows of other cheeses.
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Milk Cooler Assembly Line

Date: 03 29 1937
Description: Factory workers assemble milk coolers at the West Pullman Works.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 22 1928
Description: Man weighing a box on a Toledo scale at the Belmont Creamery.
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Milk Cooler

Date: 11 03 1936
Description: A man lifts a milk can into an International Harvester milk cooler.

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