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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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Oscar Mayer Meat Cutter Machine

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Description: An Oscar Mayer employee is arranging pork onto a conveyor belt leading into a cutting machine, which is slicing the ribs. On the machine is a logo which re...
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Oscar Mayer Trimming

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Description: Close-up of an Oscar Mayer employee trimming fat from pork with a large knife. He is wearing an apron, and a cut resistant glove on one of his hands.
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Oscar Mayer Pork Storage

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Description: Two men are handling packaged meat, which have a clipped hanger hook, from a conveyer belt and hanging them onto a vertical rack behind them.
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Oscar Mayer Ham Storage

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Description: Three men are handling packaged hams. They are transferring the hams from a conveyer belt and hanging them onto a vertical rack behind them.
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Oscar Mayer Meat Processing

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Description: Two men are standing on either side of a large meat processing machine. On the far right a man is standing by rough looking contents that are in large meta...
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Oscar Mayer Measuring Filler

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Description: A Harrington Measuring Filler by the Allbright-Nell Co., Chicago, Ill, U.S.A. is dispensing processed meat contents into paper boxes.
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Oscar Mayer Sausage Storage

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Description: A room with bologna and braunschweiger sausages hanging from racks which are made of a combination of metal frames and wooden cross bars.
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Ham Roasts Hanging from Racks

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Description: A room full of hams hanging to cure from metal racks suspended from the ceiling. There is salt on the floor. The hams are stamped with "Oscar Mayer Approve...
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Women Packaging Yellow Band Wieners

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Description: Slightly elevated view of four women standing near a conveyor belt and racks of wieners. They are wearing long coats and hats, and are labeling and packing...
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Wiener Indexing/Labeling Machine

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Description: Side view of an Oscar Mayer Wiener wiener indexing and labeling machine, without the attached sorting and holding section. Links of wieners are hanging on ...
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Oscar Mayer Yellow Band Wieners on Conveyor Belt

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Description: Close-up view of labeled Yellow Band Wieners in grouped in row of thirteen after exiting the labeling machine. The label reads: "Oscar Mayer, Chicago, Ill....
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Indexing Wieners

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Description: Close-up view of individual wieners on a conveyor belt moving towards an indexing and labeling machine.
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Oscar Mayer Cleveland Bologna Sausage

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Description: View of a large room of packaged Oscar Mayer Cleveland Bologna Sausage. The sausages are hanging from rods on metal frames suspended from the ceiling.
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Meat Boxing Line

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Description: Employees are standing in a row at a long counter filling different types of packaged meat into shipping boxes. In the foreground on a cart are boxes and p...

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