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Hog Butchering

Date: 1921
Description: Man butchering a hog, which is hanging on a meat hook.
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Miniature Farm Display at Muscatine Imp. Co.

Date: 07 02 1929
Description: A tabletop display of a miniature farm, including a house, barn, garage, windmill, fences, plants, tractor, truck, animals, and two water pumps. A sign on ...
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Pigs at the Trough

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Description: Pigs eating at a trough. The sow eats at the left, taking up most of the scene, while her nine offspring (piglets) eat or stand to the right. Caption reads...
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Slaughtered Pigs

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Description: Two men in the process of butchering three large hogs. The hogs hang off of hooks from a track on the ceiling of the slaughterhouse. The man on the right c...
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Farmer Inspecting a Litter of Piglets

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Description: A farmer inspects a sow and litter of six piglets in a pigpen.
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Interior of Hog House

Date: 1922
Description: Interior of a hog house with windows, wooden rafters and hay on the floor.
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"Pigs in Clover"

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait of a young woman posing wearing a dress and bonnet in a studio. She is holding two young pigs. The image was likely used by the McCormick Harvesti...
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Wisconsin Pacemaker Pork Program

Date: 01 25 1960
Description: The Madison area scored top awards at the first Wisconsin Pacemaker Pork program held during the opening of Farm and Home Week. At left is Gilbert Mueller,...
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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 Slaughtered Pork

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Description: A male employee wearing an apron, hat, and gloves, is standing in a room full of slaughtered pigs hanging from hooks on the ceiling. The employee is examin...
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Dressing Oscar Mayer Pigs

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Description: Four male Oscar Mayer employees dressing (gutting) slaughtered pigs in a cooler processing room.
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Oscar Mayer Meat Cutter Machine

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Description: An Oscar Mayer employee is arranging pork onto a conveyor belt leading into a cutting machine, which is slicing the ribs. On the machine is a logo which re...
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Oscar Mayer Trimming

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Description: Close-up of an Oscar Mayer employee trimming fat from pork with a large knife. He is wearing an apron, and a cut resistant glove on one of his hands.
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Oscar Mayer Meat Trimming

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Description: Close-up of an Oscar Mayer employee wearing cut resistant gloves using a large knife to trim fat from a slab of pork.
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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 Meat Processing

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Description: View towards a male employee wearing a hat and rubber apron. He is using a pitchfork to put meat through a meat processing machine, which is emptying into ...
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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 Pig Pen

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Description: View of a room full of pigs which are being cooled off by a sprinkler system installed along the indoor pen.
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Oscar Mayer Pig Pen

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Description: View of a room where pigs are being cooled off by a sprinkler system installed above the indoor pen.

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