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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view looking west at the front of the Oscar Mayer meat processing plant with a sign on the building which reads "Meat serves everybody". |
| 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 1953 |
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| Description: | A young woman shows her entry in the Central Wisconsin Junior Livestock Competition. |
| 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: | 09 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Striking members of Amalgamated Meatcutters Local 28 picketing at the Swift and Company plant in Chicago. |
| 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: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of the Oscar Mayer plant. |
| Date: | 07 01 1955 |
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| Description: | Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as Little Oscar, receiving the key to the city of Wisconsin Dells, while standing in front of the Wienermobile. Written on the key... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An International L-180 truck owned by the Holly Meat Packing Company is being backed up by a male driver from the street to a loading door at the company's... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An International L-150 truck owned by the Fehr Baking Company parked in front of Joe's Meat Market. The side of the truck advertises "Fairmade; Fairmade is... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Women workers on strike against the Holly Farms Poultry Company, posed outside for a "solidarity" picture. Dorothy Johnson, wearing the third picket sign f... |
| Date: | 09 22 1959 |
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| Description: | Interviewed outside a meat packing plant near Des Moines, Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev pronounced his first American hot dog to be "wonderful, but not... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Outside a Chicago A&P grocery store, striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America urge shoppers to boycott products of the Cudahy company... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 03 1951 |
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| Description: | Joyce Bergmann, Waunakee, opens a file drawer in an office. She is the private secretary for Adolph C. Bolz, vice-president and plant manager of Oscar Maye... |
| Date: | 02 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Studio photograph of a 12-ounce can of yellow band Oscar Mayer luncheon meat with a drawing of Little Oscar. |
| Date: | 08 01 1952 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Oscar Mayer softball team. |
| 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: | 03 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Robert Gaines, an employee at Oscar Mayer and company. Mr. Gaines is part of the 'Madison Story' — the account of the opportunities this city o... |
| Date: | 04 07 1954 |
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| Description: | Dressed turkey with label reading, "Klinke's Mini-Turks; Beltsville Whites; Miniature Turkeys, Ready to Cook, Madison Wis. One meal, Family size, Look insi... |
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