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Taste Test at Oscar Mayer

Date: 10 16 1945
Description: Slightly elevated view of men and women sitting around a table, sampling slices of Oscar Mayer meat products in the Oscar Mayer laboratory. A women in a lo...
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Test Kitchen and Laboratory

Date: 10 16 1945
Description: Slightly elevated view of five women workers in an Oscar Mayer Company test kitchen and laboratory. A low wall is separating two women working at desks on ...
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Test Kitchen and Laboratory at Oscar Mayer

Date: 10 16 1945
Description: Slightly elevated view of five women researchers performing various aspects of food research and related activities in a test kitchen and laboratory at the...
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Stamping Hams

Date: 1945
Description: Women are stamping hams with the USDA grade stamp and the Oscar Mayer label as the hams move by on an assembly line.
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Oscar Mayer Plant

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Description: View across lawn and parking lot towards the Oscar Mayer plant. A service flag with a large star with the number "1241" is hanging on the side of the build...
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View from Roof of Oscar Mayer Plant

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Description: Elevated view from roof of the Oscar Mayer Plant looking down towards the shipping lot. Trucks are backed up to the loading dock. There is a flag on a flag...
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Elevated View of Oscar Mayer Plant

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Description: Elevated view from roof of the Oscar Mayer plant. There is a water tower on the roof with a sign painted on it that reads: "Oscar Mayer." Automobiles are p...
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Oscar Mayer Parking Lot

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Description: View from parking log towards the Oscar Mayer plant. In the left foreground is a truck with a sign painted on the passenger side door that reads: "Oscar M...
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Oscar Mayer Employees Walking Outdoors

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Description: Oscar Mayer employees are walking near the plant, down the entrance road near a chain link fence. There is a water tower and three American flags on three ...
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Oscar Mayer Parking Lot

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Description: View from a fenced-off area towards the parking lot of the Oscar Mayer manufacturing plant. A flag with a large star with the number "1241" is hanging on t...
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Oscar Mayer Shipping Dock

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Description: Two male employees are standing and talking next to an Oscar Mayer truck backed up to the loading dock. The sign painted on the side of the back of the tr...
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Oscar Mayer Water Tower

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Description: View looking up between buildings and other structures towards the water tower at Oscar Mayer.
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Oscar Mayer Equipment

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Description: Slightly elevated view across machinery towards an Oscar Mayer employee recording information from equipment gauges mounted on the far wall in the backgrou...
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Oscar Mayer Engine Room?

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Description: View over beld-driven machinery towards a male employee adjusting apparatus in the engine room? He is surrounded by driver belts, pipes, and motors.
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Oscar Mayer Coal Room

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Description: Coal burning heaters with motors line the wall of a room in the Oscar Mayer manufacturing plant. Pipes, dial gauges, and paper record clipboards are mounte...
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Oscar Mayer Stockyard Employees

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Description: Male stock yard farmers wearing overall bibs, hats, and buttons are standing and sitting around inside a large room. On the left, a man dressed in a button...
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Oscar Mayer Farmers

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Description: Stockyard farmers are standing and sitting in front of a window booth, with a man sitting inside. Each man is holding a slip of paper. A sign next to the w...
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Oscar Mayer Meeting in Office

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Description: Three men are seen talking and holding pencil and paper inside an office, through a window. Two of the men are wearing work clothes, and the man on the far...
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Oscar Mayer Slaughtered Pork

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Description: A male employee wearing an apron, hat, and gloves, is standing in a room full of slaughtered pigs hanging from hooks on the ceiling. The employee is examin...
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Dressing Oscar Mayer Pigs

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Description: Four male Oscar Mayer employees dressing (gutting) slaughtered pigs in a cooler processing room.

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