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Stunning Cattle
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A packing house worker demonstrates the revolutionary Thor air-powered cattle stunner that was called the first successful pneumatic stunning tool for the meat-packing industry. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals hailed it as an outstanding humane slaughter development because the stunner rendered cattle unconscious instantaneously by driving an automatically retracting metal pin into the animal's brain, making slaughter painless.
circa 1940-1949
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W012A5C
WHi 11793
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Pasta Factory
circa 1940-1949
Workers posing with racks of fresh pasta drying in the sun in Naples, Italy.
Meat Packing
August 30, 1965
Workers are filling orders of ground steak patties by putting them into corrugated boxes layered with parchment divider paper.
Sausage Factory
circa 1930-1939
Workers at the Oscar Mayer Sausage Kitchen put Yellow Band Wieners on smoke house racks.
Meat Cutters
1945
Unionized slaughterhouse workers of the P. Brennan Company of Chicago.
Contact Sheet-Slaughtering Pigs
1947
A contact sheet showing workers slaughtering and butchering pigs at Tobin Packing Co. The image at bottom right is of a man in a white coat sitting behind a desk.
