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Oscar Mayer Pork Salting

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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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Oscar Mayer Pork Salting

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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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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 Meat Processing

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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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Oscar Mayer Meat Processing

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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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Oscar Mayer Ice Maker

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Description: Two large hollow brick-shaped blocks of ice are on a tray next to a large machine that is dispensing shaved ice into a wheeled container.
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Oscar Mayer Measuring Filler

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Description: A Harrington Measuring Filler by the Allbright-Nell Co., Chicago, Ill, U.S.A. is dispensing processed meat contents into paper boxes.
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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 Stockyard Employees

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Description: Male stock yard farmers wearing overall bibs, hats, and buttons are standing and sitting around inside a large room. On the left, a man dressed in a button...
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Oscar Mayer Farmers

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Description: Stockyard farmers are standing and sitting in front of a window booth, with a man sitting inside. Each man is holding a slip of paper. A sign next to the w...
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Oscar Mayer Meeting in Office

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Description: Three men are seen talking and holding pencil and paper inside an office, through a window. Two of the men are wearing work clothes, and the man on the far...
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Oscar Mayer Meat Processing

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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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Oscar Mayer Ham Storage

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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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Oscar Mayer Machine

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Description: An individual wearing bib overalls is standing on the far left (out of frame), and controlling a machine by pushing a button with one hand and holding a ho...
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Oscar Mayer Cooler Room

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Description: View of a room with rectangular coolers stacked from floor to ceiling. There is a white mixture of greasy and granular contents on the floor between the co...
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Oscar Mayer Sausage Storage

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Description: A room with bologna and braunschweiger sausages hanging from racks which are made of a combination of metal frames and wooden cross bars.
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Oscar Mayer Plant

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Description: View across lawn and parking lot towards the Oscar Mayer plant. A service flag with a large star with the number "1241" is hanging on the side of the build...
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Oscar Mayer Pig Carcasses

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Description: Long lines of pig carcasses left over from dressing are hanging on a rack of hooks attached to the ceiling. Inspection stamps and tags are on the carcasses...
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Oscar Mayer Scale Room

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Description: Slightly elevated view of Oscar Mayer employees, men and women, wearing lab coats and hats who are weighing packaged meet on a variety of scales in a large...

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