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| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Four women operating sausage-making equipment at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Female employees processing "Yellow Band" weiners at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II. |
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| Description: | A packinghouse worker at an unidentified slaughterhouse butchering a pig. A button on his hat reads, "No raise, no work". |
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| Description: | A group of packinghouse workers from an unidentified location processing pigs. |
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| Description: | A group of African American packinghouse workers at an unidentified location cutting slabs of pork. |
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| Description: | A group of packinghouse workers on the processing line, tending to pigs. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Men work in the meat processing room at Schwab & Company where machinery is powered by two International PA-50 power units and one PA-100 unit. |
| Date: | 01 1949 |
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| Description: | Women preparing sliced bacon at the Oscar Mayer & Co. plant in Madison. At least fifteen women are working, most most of them wearing headscarves. Caption ... |
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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: | 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Description: | A woman wearing a hairnet is standing at a conveyor belt that is holding containers of processed meat. She is using her right hand to compact the meat with... |
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| Description: | A man is operating the lever of a meat (lard) mixing machine to redirect contents into a wheeled container inside the Oscar Mayer plant. |
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| Description: | Three men a moving packaged ham from a conveyor belt and putting it onto a vertical rack behind them. |
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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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| 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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