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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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Taste Test at Oscar Mayer

Date: 10 16 1945
Description: Slightly elevated view of men and women sitting around a table, sampling slices of Oscar Mayer meat products in the Oscar Mayer laboratory. A women in a lo...
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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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Publix Fruit Market Meat Counter

Date: 07 18 1935
Description: Three men behind the meat counter at the Publix Fruit Market, located at 250 State 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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Oscar Mayer Salesmen

Date: 12 13 1931
Description: Group portrait of Oscar Mayer salesmen taken in front of sides of beef hanging in the cooler.
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Ham Inspection at Oscar Mayer

Date: 11 19 1931
Description: Oscar Mayer workers inspecting hams at a work table.
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Weighing Hams at Oscar Mayer

Date: 11 19 1931
Description: A man weighing hams on a scale at Oscar Mayer.
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Trimming Hams at Oscar Mayer

Date: 11 19 1931
Description: Men trimming hams at their jobs at Oscar Mayer.
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Serving a Dinner of Oscar Mayer Ham

Date: 11 20 1931
Description: Dinner for three, Oscar Mayer ham only entree, served in formal dining room.
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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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Fair Oaks Market Interior

Date: 06 20 1931
Description: Fair Oaks Market interior, with meat counter and other food products, butcher and customers. August F. Schulz was the manager of the store.
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Meat Inspector at Oscar Mayer Company

Date: 06 22 1945
Description: I.R. Bruley, government meat inspector, is shown applying the circular federal inspection stamp to a side of beef at Oscar Mayer Company.
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Meat Inspector at Oscar Mayer

Date: 06 22 1945
Description: Meat inspector inspecting meat at the Oscar Mayer plant.
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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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Schauls Live Poultry Farm

Date: 11 12 1938
Description: Workers wearing aprons are plucking, cleaning, and dressing chickens at the Schauls Live Poultry Farm. One man is looking at a chicken over an open McCormi...

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