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Industrial Divisions-Packinghouse Workers

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Description: Men and women packing poultry at the Home Packing Company.
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Meat Market

Date: 1910
Description: A customer waits while butchers stand behind the counter of a butcher shop, surrounded by meat hanging from the ceiling.
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Packinghouse Worker Cutting Pig

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Description: A packinghouse worker at an unidentified slaughterhouse butchering a pig. A button on his hat reads, "No raise, no work".
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Packinghouse Workers

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Description: A group of packinghouse workers from an unidentified location processing pigs.
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Packinghouse Workers at Cutting Table

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Description: A group of African American packinghouse workers at an unidentified location cutting slabs of pork.
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Packinghouse Workers on Processing Line

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Description: A group of packinghouse workers on the processing line, tending to pigs.
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Shops in Victorian Structure

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Description: Shops contained on first floor of a Victorian structure, one of which belongs to a woman named Mary. Standing in front are her husband and two sons. Furthe...
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Why Don't You Take It?

Date: 1860
Description: A large bulldog, (Winfield Scott), and a small whippet dog, (Jefferson Davis), face each other over a rack of ribs, (Washington D.C.). The bulldog is weari...
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Shopping for Sausage

Date: 1935
Description: Irene Steinkopf, a former Milwaukee journalist, shops for sausage in Vienna where her husband had been assigned by the Associated Press. A bit much for two...
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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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Historyland's Logging Camp Cook Shanty Menu

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Description: Menu of daily meat specials under the heading "Come And Get It!" from the Logging Camp Cook Shanty restaurant at Historyland. On the left is a black and wh...
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Dressing a Deer

Date: 1930
Description: An American Indian woman is bending over the carcass of a young deer on the ground in a wooded area. A man, far right, is looking at the camera while holdi...
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Dad the Photographer

Date: 1910
Description: A view of Howard "Dad" Greene photographing an Indian man and a dog next to a jerky-drying frame. They are in an Indian village at the mouth of the Namakan...

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