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Casing Department at Oscar Mayer

Date: 10 17 1939
Description: Women working in casing department at the Oscar Mayer & Company meat packing plant, 910 Mayer Avenue.
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Oscar Mayer Salesmen

Date: 11 09 1945
Description: Group portrait of Oscar Mayer Company salesmen in front of the loading dock, 910 Mayer Avenue.
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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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Oscar Mayer Cafeteria

Date: 09 27 1943
Description: Oscar Mayer Company cafeteria, showing counter in the background, and women sitting at tables in the foreground.
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Oscar Mayer Cafeteria

Date: 09 27 1943
Description: Oscar Mayer Company cafeteria showing counter in the background, and women sitting at tables in the foreground.
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Oscar Mayer Casing Workers

Date: 10 17 1939
Description: Group portrait of female workers in the casing department of Oscar Mayer & Company, located at 910 Mayer Avenue.
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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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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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Oscar Mayer Plant with Toledo Scale

Date: 02 28 1928
Description: Oscar Mayer plant interior with Toledo Scale.
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Stamping Hams

Date: 1945
Description: Women are stamping hams with the USDA grade stamp and the Oscar Mayer label as the hams move by on an assembly line.
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Woman Inspecting Hot Dogs

Date: 1944
Description: Female employee inspecting the quality of "Yellow Band" weiners at Oscar Mayer plant, 910 Mayer Avenue.
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Sausage Making

Date: 1944
Description: Four women operating sausage-making equipment at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II.
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Oscar Mayer Salesmen from Chicago

Date: 04 25 1947
Description: Group portrait of over 25 Oscar Mayer salesmen from Chicago shown in lot in front of Madison Oscar Mayer Plant with trucks, loading docks and billboard sta...
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Oscar Mayer Plans

Date: 1958
Description: Oscar G. Mayer, Jr., (left) and another Oscar Mayer & Co. official examine plans for a hog immobilization unit to be constructed at the rear of the company...
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Union Women

Date: 08 30 1954
Description: Ruby Allman (right), secretary of Local 538 Amalgamated Meat Cutter and Butcher Workmen of North America at Oscar Mayer and Company, signs up Dorothy Braun...
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Oscar Mayer & Co. Sausage Kitchen

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Description: Elevated view of about 29 employees manufacturing sausages at the Oscar Mayer & Co. plant. Caption reads: "This view of the sparkling Sausage Kitchen at Os...
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Air Monitoring Laboratory Van

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Description: View across street through chain-link fence towards a van labeled: "Department of Natural Resources Air Monitoring Laboratory." Behind the van and across a...
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Elevated View of Oscar Mayer Plant

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Description: Elevated view from roof of the Oscar Mayer plant. There is a water tower on the roof with a sign painted on it that reads: "Oscar Mayer." Automobiles are p...
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Oscar Mayer Employees Walking Outdoors

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Description: Oscar Mayer employees are walking near the plant, down the entrance road near a chain link fence. There is a water tower and three American flags on three ...
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Oscar Mayer Shipping Dock

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Description: Two male employees are standing and talking next to an Oscar Mayer truck backed up to the loading dock. The sign painted on the side of the back of the tr...

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