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| Description: | Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as Little Oscar and wearing a hat that reads "Yellow Band Wieners," is standing in front of the Wienermmobile and holding one side... |
| Date: | 08 1946 |
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| Description: | Fairgoers examine exhibits about meat, "Man's Favorite Food," sponsored by the National Livestock and Meat Board at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | The driver of the wienermobile finds the entrance to the Oscar Mayer tent at the Wisconsin State Fair too low for it to get in. |
| Date: | 09 1959 |
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| Description: | Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 167 on strike outside the Swift & Co. plant in St. Paul. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 stand near the Swift & Co., plant in membership in an attempt to prevent Wilson products being lo... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street. Will Brothers Meat Market can be seen on the right corner, and a tinshop is beside it on the left. |
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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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| Description: | Striking packinghouse workers on a picket line at an unidentified locality. Sign on side of building reads, "W & W Pickle Co." |
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| Description: | In this uncaptioned photograph from their archives, members of the United Packinghouse Workers union are seen standing on two sound trucks speaking to the ... |
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| Description: | Strikers from the United Packinghouse Workers union in Topeka taking a coffee break from their picketing. The strikers were employees of the Hill Packing C... |
| Date: | 05 1948 |
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| Description: | The message of United Packinghouse Workers of American picketers gained force when members who were veterans wore their uniforms. One picket sign reads "We... |
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| Description: | Members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America employed at the Jones company in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, celebrate after an election victory. |
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| Description: | A copy of a promotional postcard showing the Jacob E. Decker & Sons packing plant, factories, railroad, and grazing animals. All contribute to the producti... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Chicago Union Stock Yards. |
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| Description: | View down South Dubuque Street featuring Hotel Jefferson in the distance at left, built in 1913 with a Classical Revival influence. Automobiles, cable cars... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Wienermobile in the Oscar Mayer parking lot. The driver is seated in the cab, but is obscured by the side mirror. Employee cars and other Oscar Mayer vehic... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Chicken Hot Dog, Chicken Redhot Company, W.M. Neill, proprietor." On the label is an... |
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| Description: | View of side of truck parked outdoors in the grass, with the words: "Oscar Mayer's Meats of Good Taste. Aluminum Refrigerator." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View looking across unpaved Main Street towards commercial buildings, including a meat market and the First National Bank. There are horse-drawn vehicles p... |
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