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| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers on the bottling line at the Schlitz Brewery. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman production line worker boxes cone-top cans of Tip Top soft drinks as they come off the production line. |
| Date: | 08 30 1965 |
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| Description: | Workers are filling orders of ground steak patties by putting them into corrugated boxes layered with parchment divider paper. |
| Date: | 10 27 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers removing bones from tuna and selecting different cuts to be used for canned food. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Women are stamping hams with the USDA grade stamp and the Oscar Mayer label as the hams move by on an assembly line. |
| 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: | Fruit pies speed past Morton assembly line worker Ethel McCollough on their way to the machine in which they will be boxed for freezing. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of two women, members of Amalgamated Meatcutters local P78, inspecting onions, probably at a warehouse in California. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | A truck from the field is dumping a load of onions onto a conveyor belt to be inspected, sorted, and bagged. Workers in the background, who were represente... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Women workers at a Wisconsin canning factory inspecting corn as it passes by them on conveyor belts. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Two women workers at a Wisconsin pea cannery enjoy a light moment, as the shelled peas they are inspecting pass by on a conveyor belt. Both women are weari... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Three workers stand near a conveyor carrying bottles at the Pittsfield Bottling Works. A milk cooler sits on a platform nearby. The back of one worker's sh... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Workers standing near bottling equipment at the Royal Crown Cola Company. Advertising signs for Royal Crown and Nehi soda are in the background. |
| Date: | 08 19 1949 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the interior of the Canada Dry Bottling Company plant at 3313 University Avenue, showing the bottling line. One person is standin... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Women workers, probably at a California warehouse, size, weigh, and bag carrots for market. |
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| Description: | A view of men and women loading sugar cane onto the carrier conveying it into the sugar house. Caption reads: "Loading Sugar Cane Onto Carrier Conveying It... |
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| Description: | The finished cheese curds are weighed and poured into forms to make a 40 pound block of cheese. |
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| Description: | William Burchart and Herman Novak unload potatoes from a truck at Frito-Lay Potato Corporation. The potatoes are being dumped from the back of the truck in... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland and princesses inspect jars of cranberry sauce as they move along a production line. |
| Date: | 10 1969 |
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| Description: | Women work along an assembly line grading and sorting cranberries. |
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