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| Date: | 06 22 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the top of an Oscar Mayer refrigerated railroad car, Chicago & Northwestern #URTX 5365 with a view of the Oscar Mayer rail yards. There is... |
| Date: | 11 12 1938 |
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| Description: | Workers wearing aprons are plucking, cleaning, and dressing chickens at the Schauls Live Poultry Farm. One man is looking at a chicken over an open McCormi... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man is holding a cleaned duck over the opening of a McCormick-Deering cooler at the Chain O' Lakes Duck Farm. His hat and apron are covered in feathers. ... |
| Date: | 08 08 1949 |
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| Description: | A ragweed field near the Oscar Mayer and Company plant at 910 Mayer Avenue. When the ragweed blooms, it will cause misery for Madison's hayfever victims. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Chicago Union Stock Yards. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Oshkosh Packing & Provision Company, a meat packer and preserver, with an illustration of the company buildings on the waterfront, with w... |
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| Description: | Four male Oscar Mayer employees dressing (gutting) slaughtered pigs in a cooler processing room. |
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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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| 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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| Description: | Close-up of an Oscar Mayer employee wearing cut resistant gloves using a large knife to trim fat from a slab of pork. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Description: | View of a room where pigs are being cooled off by a sprinkler system installed above the indoor 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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| 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... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A contact sheet showing workers slaughtering and butchering pigs at Tobin Packing Co. The image at bottom right is of a man in a white coat sitting behind ... |
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