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Strictly Kosher

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Description: At an unidentified kosher butcher shop, a butcher holds up a chicken for a customer to examine. A sign in the background indicates that the butchers were m...
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Braslawsky's Kosher Market

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Description: At Lou Braslawsky's kosher meat market, a butcher holds a roast for a customer to examine. A sign at the back of the store suggests that chickens, not beef...
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Union Election

Date: 02 06 1973
Description: Local P-28 of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union votes for their officers.
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CIO Fair Booth

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Description: A booth at an Alabama fair (probably at Florence) sought support for the striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 680 who worked for the R.L. ...
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Military Meat

Date: 08 1951
Description: At Fort Sam Houston students from the Food Service School learn new meat cutting practices so that individual messes can pick up their rations ready for co...
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Academy Award-Winning Butcher

Date: 03 11 1956
Description: Actor Ernest Borgnine, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as a butcher in "Marty", reenacted his role for a publicity photograph at a groc...
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Men Preparing to Butcher Lambs

Date: 09 1910
Description: Men preparing to butcher sheep at the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. A cabin is visible behind them on a hill.
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City Food Mart

Date: 1935
Description: Five men and three women, employees of City Food Mart, pose in front of the store at 124 Third Street. Signs identify the store as "Baraboo's Newest Comple...
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Wholesale Meat Market, Washington Street

Date: 1968
Description: A worker examines a hanging haunch of meat in the wholesale meat market on Washington Street, while another worker stands in the background. Also in the ro...
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David A. Marcou

Date: 2008
Description: David A. Marcou, father of the photographer, and meat-cutter, stands underneath a sign in a store.
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River Grove Meat Market

Date: 1921
Description: View from across street of two men in butchers' aprons standing outside the River Grove Meat Market storefront.
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Couple Selling Pork

Date: 02 15 1915
Description: Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Crumley cutting slabs of meat from a hog placed on a wooden table outdoors among trees. Another woman is in the background near some stea...
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Butcher

Date: 1921
Description: A butcher holds a knife as he weighs a piece of meat on a hanging scale. A male customer wearing a one-piece work suit and hat waits on the opposite side o...
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Slaughtered Pigs

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Description: Two men in the process of butchering three large hogs. The hogs hang off of hooks from a track on the ceiling of the slaughterhouse. The man on the right c...
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Chas. Genge Meat Market

Date: 1911
Description: Exterior view of the meat market. A man wearing a butcher's jacket stands on the porch alongside a platform scale.
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Rhinelander Butcher Shop

Date: 1911
Description: Interior view of a butcher shop, with a male butcher sharpening a knife behind a counter lined with cuts of meat, sausages and a scale. Behind the counter ...
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Boscobel Meat Market

Date: 1905
Description: A man and a woman stand on the customer side of the counters. Phil Hof stands with a large knife behind a tabled covered with meat, while Sam and Herman Ho...
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J.E. Rhodes & Co., Pork and Beef Packers

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Description: View from street of the front of the J.E. Rhodes & Co., Pork and Beef Packers building on Main Street. A group of men, with a cat and a dog, are posing in ...
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J.L. Miller and Co.

Date: 1889
Description: Outdoor group portrait of, left to right, William F. Fuller, James L. Miller, and Albert Zimmerman standing outside their shop at 24 W. Mifflin Street. In ...
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Sid at Oscar Mayer Company

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Description: Sid talking to two employees in the Oscar Mayer Company. All three men are wearing long white coats and hats. Sid is standing in the middle next to meat ha...

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