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Canning Soft Drinks

Date: 1950
Description: A woman production line worker boxes cone-top cans of Tip Top soft drinks as they come off the production line.
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Gardner Bakery Bread Conveyor

Date: 05 09 1931
Description: Bread conveyor manufactured by Wisconsin Foundry and Machine Co. at Gardner Bakery, 849 E. Washington Avenue.
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Gardner Bakery Bread Conveyor

Date: 05 09 1931
Description: Bread conveyor manufactured by Wisconsin Foundry and Machine Co. at Gardner Bakery, 849 E. Washington Avenue.
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Gardner Bakery Bread Conveyor

Date: 05 09 1931
Description: Bread conveyor manufactured by Wisconsin Foundry and Machine Co. at Gardner Bakery, 849 E. Washington Avenue.
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Pie Maker

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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.
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Sorting Onions

Date: 1972
Description: Slightly elevated view of two women, members of Amalgamated Meatcutters local P78, inspecting onions, probably at a warehouse in California.
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Buster Bottling Co.

Date: 1938
Description: Workers packaging bottles of soda into crates, some of which are labeled "Orange Crush." A McCormick-Deering cooler is standing nearby. Original caption st...
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Canada Dry Bottling Company Plant

Date: 08 19 1949
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...
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Packaging Room

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Description: CEO Joe Widmer stands in the newly added area used for cheese packaging.
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Packing Boxes with Bags of Cranberries

Date: 11 21 1997
Description: Two young men are packing boxes with bags of Ocean Spray cranberries. In the background women are bagging the cranberries.
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Agricultural Equipment Manufacturing at Osbourne

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Description: A large room in the factory is filled with pieces of farming implements in various stages of manufacturing. The parts are hanging from large hooks installe...
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Factory Worker with Cart at Osborne Works

Date: 1909
Description: A man in overalls stands with a large cart filled with parts at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). Behind him is a wall...
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Ice Cream Sticks on Conveyor

Date: 1977
Description: Ice cream sticks travel down a conveyor in the Lilly Ice Cream factory. Some of the ice cream sticks have been dipped in chocolate, and some have not. Choc...
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Worker at Milk Bottle Filling Station

Date: 1977
Description: A man is standing near a machine filling milk bottles. A conveyor line in front of him is bringing empty milk bottles to the machine where they are filled ...
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Plano Manufacturing Company Advertisement

Date: 1900
Description: Advertisement from catalog featuring an illustration of the Jones Chain Mower, and a man using it in a field with a team of horses. Around the border are i...
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Perfume Factory

Date: 07 1945
Description: View from side of women sitting in a row working on an assembly line in a perfume factory.
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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 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 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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