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Oscar Mayer Meat Scientist

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Description: A male employee wearing a lab coat and hat is standing in front of an open oven, checking the temperature of a meatloaf with a thermometer.
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Oscar Mayer Cooler Room

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Description: View of a room with rectangular coolers stacked from floor to ceiling. There is a white mixture of greasy and granular contents on the floor between the co...
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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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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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Oscar Mayer Pig Carcasses

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Description: Long lines of pig carcasses left over from dressing are hanging on a rack of hooks attached to the ceiling. Inspection stamps and tags are on the carcasses...
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Oscar Mayer Scale Room

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Description: Slightly elevated view of Oscar Mayer employees, men and women, wearing lab coats and hats who are weighing packaged meet on a variety of scales in a large...
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Oscar Mayer Female Employees with Slabs of Meat

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Description: Slightly elevated view of four women standing on both sides of a conveyor belt. Two women are using knives and are holding large pieces of meat, while the ...
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Oscar Mayer Ham Storage

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Description: Three men are working to hang processed ham roasts, which are individually packaged in mesh bags, onto racks suspended from the ceiling.
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Oscar Mayer Rack of Ham

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Description: Packaged ham roasts are hanging from strings on a metal rack suspended from the ceiling.
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Oscar Mayer Barrels

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Description: View of a room with large wooden barrels stacked and arranged in rows. Between the rows, a series of pipes are coming down from the ceiling. A hose along t...
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Oscar Mayer Ice Making

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Description: View over metal forms towards two men who are using ice picks to move the ice from the forms out onto the floor. Large windows are on the far wall in the b...
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Oscar Mayer Ice Making

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Description: Two men dressed in lab coats and hats are holding pick axes to move ice bricks out from metal containers in the foreground. A line of ice bricks are behind...
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Oscar Mayer Ice Cooler Room

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Description: Four men are in a large room with a high ceiling. Three of the man are on the floor working to move ice bricks towards the stack of ice in the background. ...
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Oscar Mayer Loading Dock

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Description: Men wearing overalls, jackets, hats, and gloves are pushing carts of wooden and cardboard crates which read: "Oscar Mayer, Approved, Fine Foods since 1883,...
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Oscar Mayer Pig Pen

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Description: View of a room full of pigs which are being cooled off by a sprinkler system installed along the indoor pen.
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Oscar Mayer Pig Pen

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Description: View of a room where pigs are being cooled off by a sprinkler system installed above the indoor pen.
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Oscar Mayer Outdoor Pig Pen

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Description: Elevated view of pigs grazing inside the outdoor pig pen attached to a large industrial building. A man is standing outside the pen in the foreground on th...
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Oscar Mayer Outdoor Pig Pen

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Description: Elevated view of pigs grazing inside the outdoor pig pen attached to a building. In the background, two men are standing near the large doors of the buildi...
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Oscar Mayer Barn

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Description: View of a barn with two silos on the right.
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Oscar Mayer Cows

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Description: Cattle are grazing in a dirt pen. A barn and silos are in the background.

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