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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 Packing

Date: 08 30 1965
Description: Workers are filling orders of ground steak patties by putting them into corrugated boxes layered with parchment divider paper.
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Oscar Mayer Company Cafeteria

Date: 10 15 1943
Description: Oscar Mayer Company cafeteria with workers sitting at tables.
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Oscar Mayer Co. Cafeteria

Date: 10 15 1943
Description: Oscar Mayer Company cafeteria, showing workers standing in a food line.
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Interior of North St. Market

Date: 04 08 1938
Description: Four employees behind the meat counter in the North St. Meat Market (Jacobson's), 227 North Street.
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Moore's Cash Market Interior

Date: 12 12 1933
Description: B. Elmer Moore's Cash (meat) Market, 2333 East Washington Avenue, interior. Five clerks are standing behind the counter, and another man is standing in fro...
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Group Portrait of Oscar Mayer Icemen

Date: 07 11 1933
Description: Group portrait of 23 Oscar Mayer ice deliverymen in uniform and 3 plant workers.
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Woman Purchasing Ham

Date: 09 08 1931
Description: Woman purchasing Oscar Mayer ham at Levenick Brothers meat market at 1406 Williamson Street.
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Sausage Machine

Date: 06 24 1931
Description: Sausages coming off of the sausage machine at the Madison Packing Company, 307 West Johnson Street. Standing around the machine are eight workers and Oswal...
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Giant Man and Meinhardt Raabe

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Description: A giant man, wearing a suit and hat, and Meinhardt Raabe, who is dressed as Little Oscar, are standing together and pulling up their pants legs to compare ...
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Packinghouse Workers

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Description: Packinghouse workers splitting a carcass into halves.
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Alice and the Winner

Date: 1962
Description: Alice in Dairyland 1962, Sylvia Lee Kafkas, posing with a young winner and his entry at the regional Junior Livestock Exposition in Eau Claire.
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Meat Cutters

Date: 1945
Description: Unionized slaughterhouse workers of the P. Brennan Company of Chicago.
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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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Harrison Produce Company Sales Counter

Date: 1937
Description: A man behind a counter weighs chickens on a countertop scale, and a women in a coat examines chickens on the counter. Some canned items are on a shelf behi...
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Chain O' Lakes Duck Farm

Date: 1939
Description: A man is holding a cleaned duck over the opening of a McCormick-Deering cooler at the Chain O' Lakes Duck Farm. His hat and apron are covered in feathers. ...
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Peter Fox Son's Produce Co.

Date: 1940
Description: Two men looking at a pile of poultry in a bin at Peter Fox Son's Produce Company. The man on the left is holding a turkey near a McCormick-Deering cooler. ...
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Hugh Coulter with Cooler

Date: 1941
Description: Hugh Coulter puts poultry in a McCormick-Deering cooler. Original caption reads: "Mr. Coulter is a dealer in dressed poultry. In a short time Coulter had ...
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Khrushchev's First Hot Dog

Date: 09 22 1959
Description: Interviewed outside a meat packing plant near Des Moines, Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev pronounced his first American hot dog to be "wonderful, but not...
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Strike Kitchen

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Description: Strikers from the United Packinghouse Workers union in Topeka taking a coffee break from their picketing. The strikers were employees of the Hill Packing C...

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