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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: | 12 15 1923 |
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| Description: | S-speed truck owned by House of A. Silz and parked on the street in front of Silz Garage. The side panel of the truck includes an advertisement for "Fancy ... |
| Date: | 08 1946 |
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| Description: | Fairgoers examine exhibits about meat, "Man's Favorite Food," sponsored by the National Livestock and Meat Board at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 09 1953 |
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| Description: | A young woman shows her entry in the Central Wisconsin Junior Livestock Competition. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland 1962, Sylvia Lee Kafkas, posing with a young winner and his entry at the regional Junior Livestock Exposition in Eau Claire. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A man behind a counter weighs chickens on a countertop scale, and a women in a coat examines chickens on the counter. Some canned items are on a shelf behi... |
| 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: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men looking at a pile of poultry in a bin at Peter Fox Son's Produce Company. The man on the left is holding a turkey near a McCormick-Deering cooler. ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Hugh Coulter puts poultry in a McCormick-Deering cooler. Original caption reads: "Mr. Coulter is a dealer in dressed poultry. In a short time Coulter had ... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 04 08 1964 |
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| Description: | Part of the crowd of National Farmers Organization demonstrators who assembled near the Oscar Mayer and Company plant as a "show of strength" to get higher... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Three men inspecting chickens in front of the Madison Packing Company located at 307 West Johnson Street. One of the men is identified as Norbert J. Noltne... |
| Date: | 07 22 1925 |
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| Description: | A man and woman are sitting in a livestock delivery truck. In the back of the truck, which has a stake body, is a cow. Behind them another man stands behin... |
| Date: | 07 22 1925 |
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| Description: | A truck with a stake body is transporting cattle at a cattle yard. The truck is backed up to the side of an open sided shed with fences on the side. Large ... |
| 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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