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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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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 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 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 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 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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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 Women Employees Stamping Meat

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Description: View towards a group of women standing in the foreground on either side of a conveyer belt. The women are stamping Oscar Mayer logos into packaged slabs of...
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Oscar Mayer Meat Processing

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Description: View towards a male employee wearing a hat and rubber apron. He is using a pitchfork to put meat through a meat processing machine, which is emptying into ...
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Oscar Mayer Pork Salting

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Description: Slightly elevated view of four men in hats, aprons, and rubber gloves standing around two deep bins of what may be salt. Next to the salting station are st...
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Oscar Mayer Pork Salting

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Description: Slightly elevated view of four men standing around two bins while grabbing slabs of pork that may be bacon? The containers may have salt for processing?
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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: Elevated view of a man holding the lever of a meat(lard) mixing machine to redirect contents into a wheeled container inside the Oscar Mayer plant.

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