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Wholesale Meat Market, Washington Street

Date: 1968
Description: A worker examines a hanging haunch of meat in the wholesale meat market on Washington Street, while another worker stands in the background. Also in the ro...
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Don't See It: Big Thing Big Thing

Date: 1861
Description: A large dog, (Winfield Scott), and a smaller dog (Jefferson Davis) discussing a piece of meat, (Washington D.C.). Perhaps a comment on the insignificance o...
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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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Mendota Yacht Club Moonlight Regatta

Date: 07 07 1952
Description: Josie Mayer and Sue Adams roast wieners at the Mendota Yacht Club moonlight regatta and picnic supper on the roof of the Edgewater Hotel.
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Group at Alabama Barbecue Pit

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: A group of men, women, and children gathered around an outdoor barbecue pit as meat roasts. The barbecue took place at Louis Frank Sessions' farm during a ...
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David A. Marcou

Date: 2008
Description: David A. Marcou, father of the photographer, and meat-cutter, stands underneath a sign in a store.
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Couple Selling Pork

Date: 02 15 1915
Description: Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Crumley cutting slabs of meat from a hog placed on a wooden table outdoors among trees. Another woman is in the background near some stea...
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Oscar Mayer Plant Interior Ventilation System

Date: 09 22 1953
Description: The interior ventilation system at the Oscar Mayer Plant, taken for Kulzick Advertising.
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Cutting Off Chicken Legs

Date: 04 1927
Description: Person's hands cutting the legs off a recently plucked chicken with pruning shears. A can of Sterno is in the background.
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Slicing Canned Meatloaf

Date: 07 23 1926
Description: Close-up of a person's slicing a plate of canned meatloaf. Original can and can opener are on the table next to the food.
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Woman Cooking

Date: 11 1919
Description: Mrs. Irving Bielby placing a roast on a plate after cooking it in a pressure kettle at the Babcock farm.
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Butcher

Date: 1921
Description: A butcher holds a knife as he weighs a piece of meat on a hanging scale. A male customer wearing a one-piece work suit and hat waits on the opposite side o...
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Spiegel Family Butchering Chickens

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Description: Six men of the Spiegel family stand outdoors around a long wooden table butchering chickens. The table is covered with large steel pots and pieces of meat....
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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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Street View

Date: 1925
Description: View down a street of mixed stores and residences. An automobile parks outside a furniture store at left and men stand outside a grocery store and meat ma...
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Sausage Display

Date: 04 15 1967
Description: Richard Bublitz, William Mackowiak and Edward McPhetridge looking through a window at a sausage display in a delicatessen owned by Charles E. (Bud) Gillett...
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East Main Street

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Description: View down East Main Street featuring several storefronts. Published by S. Friedman.
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Horse-Drawn Wagon on Silver Street

Date: 1908
Description: View from street of man seated on a horse-drawn wagon on Silver Street, which is parked in front of (from left to right) Joseph Rainieri Meat Market, Egan ...
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Outdoor Cooking

Date: 06 09 1954
Description: Stanley V. Kubly preparing a steak on a grill while his family is looking on. Watching, from left to right, are Dan, 12; Trudi, 17; and Stan's wife, Evelyn...
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Outdoor Cooking

Date: 06 09 1954
Description: Doctor Lawrence V. Littig cooking a steak on a grill while his wife Sally and seven-year-old son Norman look on.

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