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Stamping Hams

Date: 1945
Description: Women are stamping hams with the USDA grade stamp and the Oscar Mayer label as the hams move by on an assembly line.
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Oscar Mayer Women Employees Stamping Meat

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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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Oscar Mayer Pork Storage

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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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Oscar Mayer Ham Storage

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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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Oscar Mayer Packaging

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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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Oscar Mayer Female Employees with Slabs of Meat

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Description: Slightly elevated view of four women standing on both sides of a conveyor belt. Two women are using knives and are holding large pieces of meat, while the ...
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Women Packaging Yellow Band Wieners

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Description: Slightly elevated view of four women standing near a conveyor belt and racks of wieners. They are wearing long coats and hats, and are labeling and packing...
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Weiner Indexing/Labeling Machine

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Description: View of an Oscar Mayer wiener indexing and labeling machine, which has an attached sorting and holding section. Links of wieners are hanging on racks in th...
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Weiner Indexing/Labeling Machine

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Description: Side view of an Oscar Mayer wiener indexing and labeling machine, with an attached sorting and holding section. Links of wieners are hanging on racks in th...
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Wiener Indexing/Labeling Machine

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Description: Side view of an Oscar Mayer Wiener wiener indexing and labeling machine, without the attached sorting and holding section. Links of wieners are hanging on ...
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Oscar Mayer Yellow Band Wieners on Conveyor Belt

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Description: Close-up view of labeled Yellow Band Wieners in grouped in row of thirteen after exiting the labeling machine. The label reads: "Oscar Mayer, Chicago, Ill....
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Indexing Wieners

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Description: Close-up view of individual wieners on a conveyor belt moving towards an indexing and labeling machine.

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