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Child in a Shopping Cart

Date: 01 27 1956
Description: Child in a shopping cart with a frozen Armour smoked ham.
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Meat Market

Date: 1910
Description: A customer waits while butchers stand behind the counter of a butcher shop, surrounded by meat hanging from the ceiling.
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Carving the Turkey

Date: 11 25 1965
Description: A man takes pleasure in the carving of the Thanksgiving turkey, with other food items in the foreground and vending machines behind him.
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Slicing the Meat

Date: 02 05 1955
Description: Next to a hanging scale, a large slab of meat on a butcher block is sliced into managable portions by apron-clad Mrs. Etta Parson Hocking.
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Veteran Butcher

Date: 09 08 1956
Description: Butcher Herman Nimmer positions his hand saw to cut a slab of meat.
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Meat Locker

Date: 1922
Description: Sides of beef and hams hang from meathooks in the meat storage area of the Goeden & Krueger market.
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Sausage Display

Date: 04 15 1967
Description: Richard Bublitz, William Mackowiak and Edward McPhetridge looking through a window at a sausage display in a delicatessen owned by Charles E. (Bud) Gillett...
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Rhinelander Butcher Shop

Date: 1911
Description: Interior view of a butcher shop, with a male butcher sharpening a knife behind a counter lined with cuts of meat, sausages and a scale. Behind the counter ...
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Boscobel Meat Market

Date: 1905
Description: A man and a woman stand on the customer side of the counters. Phil Hof stands with a large knife behind a tabled covered with meat, while Sam and Herman Ho...
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Oscar Mayer & Co. Sliced Bacon Department

Date: 01 1949
Description: Women preparing sliced bacon at the Oscar Mayer & Co. plant in Madison. At least fifteen women are working, most most of them wearing headscarves. Caption ...
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Expert Eye

Date: 07 30 1971
Description: A man in a suit is watching as one man is pouring liquid onto a grill, while another man on the left is holding a grill holder full of brats. Caption reads...
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Pupils at Cumberland School

Date: 01 16 1962
Description: Three students at folk fair. One student is sitting at a table slicing bread, with a student standing next to her who is holding a sausage on a plate. A th...

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