Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 23

Photograph

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.
Photograph

Ham Inspection at Oscar Mayer

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

Weighing Hams at Oscar Mayer

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

Trimming Hams at Oscar Mayer

Date: 11 19 1931
Description: Men trimming hams at their jobs at Oscar Mayer.
Photograph

Butchering Hogs

Date: 09 09 1931
Description: Gutted hogs hang from back feet on the Oscar Mayer butchering line with butchers at work.
Photograph

Stripping Tuna

Date: 10 27
Description: Elevated view of workers removing bones from tuna and selecting different cuts to be used for canned food.
Photograph

Women Workers and Sausage Links

Date: 1949
Description: Four women butcher workers in white lab coats hand tie sausage links at the Oscar Mayer plant.
Photograph

Beef Dressing Floor

Date: 
Description: A Milwaukee member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers of North America gutting a beef carcass on the dressing floor.
Photograph

Chicken Processing

Date: 
Description: Production line of defeathered chickens.
Photograph

Turkey Processing

Date: 1975
Description: Women members of Local 231, of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers of North America preparing turkeys for the market.
Photograph

Butchering Beef

Date: 
Description: Using a power tool, a member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America is cutting up a hanging beef carcass.
Photograph

Trimming Poultry

Date: 
Description: A woman worker on the poultry line at an unidentified packer, probably in Chicago. All of the other workers, all of whom were represented by the Amalgamate...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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 ...
Photograph

Men with Chickens at the Madison Packing Company

Date: 1926
Description: Three men inspecting chickens in front of the Madison Packing Company located at 307 West Johnson Street. One of the men is identified as Norbert J. Noltne...
Photograph

Oscar Mayer & Co. Sliced Bacon Department

Date: 01 1949
Description: Women preparing sliced bacon at the Oscar Mayer & Co. plant in Madison. At least fifteen women are working, most most of them wearing headscarves. Caption ...
Photograph

Oscar Mayer Slaughtered Pork

Date: 
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...
Photograph

Oscar Mayer Trimming

Date: 
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.
Photograph

Oscar Mayer Meat Trimming

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

Oscar Mayer Women Employees Stamping Meat

Date: 
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...

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: