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Pressure Cooker

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Description: A male Oscar Mayer employee wearing a long white lab coat is standing next to a pressure cooker looking at a circular record keeping device attached to the...
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Chemistry Lab at Oscar Mayer

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Description: Elevated view of two men in a chemistry lab with glass block walls. The men are standing in front of two different wet bench lab tables, and are working on...
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Oscar Mayer Cleveland Bologna Sausage

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Description: View of a large room of packaged Oscar Mayer Cleveland Bologna Sausage. The sausages are hanging from rods on metal frames suspended from the ceiling.
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Meat Boxing Line

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Description: Employees are standing in a row at a long counter filling different types of packaged meat into shipping boxes. In the foreground on a cart are boxes and p...
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Oscar Mayer Sales Room

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Description: Elevated view of men sitting at a row of cubicles. Some of the men are talking telephones, and other men are writing on legal pads. Oscar Mayer advertiseme...
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Yellow Band Wiener Taste Testing

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Description: Slightly elevated view of men and women sitting around a table, sampling slices of Oscar Mayer meat products in the Oscar Mayer laboratory. A women in a lo...
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Rundell's Beauty Salon and Neesvig Meats

Date: 1973
Description: View across West Johnson Street towards Rundell's Beauty Salon (right) and Neesvig Meats (left). A car is parked along the curb, and a bicycle is parked ne...
Postcard

Oscar Mayer & Co.

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Description: Aerial view of the Oscar Mayer & Co. with Lake Mendota in the distance. Text on reverse reads: "Pictured here in aerial color view is the meat packing plan...
Postcard

Oscar Mayer & Co. General Office

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Description: Text on reverse reads: "Oscar Mayer & Co., established in 1883, is one of the largest meat processors in the U.S. The Oscar F. Mayer memorial fountain, in ...
Photograph

Oscar Mayer Hotdoggers

Date: 1993
Description: Four team members on the grounds of the Oscar Mayer plant during a picnic.
Poster

What's At Steak?

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Description: Poster with an illustration of people protesting, with the words: "Decent Wages," "Safety," above a cow in the center that has sections with labels that re...
Print

Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen — Window Sticker

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Description: Window sticker with the symbol for the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. At the bottom is the word "Officer."
Photograph

Lasley, King, and Helstien

Date: 10 1957
Description: A casual group portrait of Russell Lasley, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ralph Helstein.
Photograph

Packinghouse Worker

Date: 1942
Description: Portrait of a meat packinghouse worker wearing a striped hat. He has an unlit cigarette in his mouth. The button on his hat reads: "Vote UPWA CIO."
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Interior View of P. Brennan & Co

Date: 1945
Description: Two workers at P. Brennan & Co.
Photograph

Processing Meat

Date: 1945
Description: Workers process meat at P. Brennan & Co. Two men are working in the foreground, and two women are working in the background.
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Contact Sheet-Slaughtering Pigs

Date: 1947
Description: A contact sheet showing workers slaughtering and butchering pigs at Tobin Packing Co. The image at bottom right is of a man in a white coat sitting behind ...

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