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"Fattening up the Christmas Roast"

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Description: German troops getting pig ready for slaughter.
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Oscar Mayer Stockyard Employees

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Description: Male stock yard farmers wearing overall bibs, hats, and buttons are standing and sitting around inside a large room. On the left, a man dressed in a button...
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Oscar Mayer Slaughtered Pork

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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...
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Dressing Oscar Mayer Pigs

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Description: Four male Oscar Mayer employees dressing (gutting) slaughtered pigs in a cooler processing room.
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Oscar Mayer Meat Cutter Machine

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Description: An Oscar Mayer employee is arranging pork onto a conveyor belt leading into a cutting machine, which is slicing the ribs. On the machine is a logo which re...
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Oscar Mayer Trimming

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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.
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Oscar Mayer Women Employees Stamping Meat

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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...
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Oscar Mayer Meat Processing

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Description: View towards a male employee wearing a hat and rubber apron. He is using a pitchfork to put meat through a meat processing machine, which is emptying into ...
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Oscar Mayer Outdoor Pig Pen

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Description: Elevated view of pigs grazing inside the outdoor pig pen attached to a large industrial building. A man is standing outside the pen in the foreground on th...
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Oscar Mayer Outdoor Pig Pen

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Description: Elevated view of pigs grazing inside the outdoor pig pen attached to a building. In the background, two men are standing near the large doors of the buildi...
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Men Loading Pigs into Truck

Date: 07 09 1928
Description: A truck with tall, wood sides is backed up to a loading dock. Two men are loading pigs into the truck. The sign on the driver's side door reads: "Padget an...
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Man Tending Hogs

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Description: A man is tending hogs inside a fenced enclosure outdoors. Lantern slide.
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Manure Spreader

Date: 1905
Description: Will von der Sump waves a greeting to the photographer as he drives a wagon manure spreader pulled by a three horse team. The new Von der Sump barn with co...
Map or Atlas

Residences in Buffalo and Pepin Counties

Date: 1877
Description: A page from an illustrated historical atlas depicting five residences, including that of Conrad Ochsner.
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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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