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Stamping Hams

Date: 1945
Description: Women are stamping hams with the USDA grade stamp and the Oscar Mayer label as the hams move by on an assembly line.
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Oscar Mayer Plant

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Description: View across lawn and parking lot towards the Oscar Mayer plant. A service flag with a large star with the number "1241" is hanging on the side of the build...
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View from Roof of Oscar Mayer Plant

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Description: Elevated view from roof of the Oscar Mayer Plant looking down towards the shipping lot. Trucks are backed up to the loading dock. There is a flag on a flag...
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Elevated View of Oscar Mayer Plant

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Description: Elevated view from roof of the Oscar Mayer plant. There is a water tower on the roof with a sign painted on it that reads: "Oscar Mayer." Automobiles are p...
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Oscar Mayer Parking Lot

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Description: View from parking log towards the Oscar Mayer plant. In the left foreground is a truck with a sign painted on the passenger side door that reads: "Oscar M...
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Oscar Mayer Employees Walking Outdoors

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Description: Oscar Mayer employees are walking near the plant, down the entrance road near a chain link fence. There is a water tower and three American flags on three ...
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Oscar Mayer Parking Lot

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Description: View from a fenced-off area towards the parking lot of the Oscar Mayer manufacturing plant. A flag with a large star with the number "1241" is hanging on t...
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Oscar Mayer Shipping Dock

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Description: Two male employees are standing and talking next to an Oscar Mayer truck backed up to the loading dock. The sign painted on the side of the back of the tr...
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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 Pork Storage

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Description: Two men are handling packaged meat, which have a clipped hanger hook, from a conveyer belt and hanging them onto a vertical rack behind them.
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Oscar Mayer Ham Storage

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Description: Three men are handling packaged hams. They are transferring the hams from a conveyer belt and hanging them onto a vertical rack behind them.
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Oscar Mayer Packaging

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Description: A woman wearing a hairnet is standing at a conveyor belt that is holding containers of processed meat. She is using her right hand to compact the meat with...
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Oscar Mayer Meat Processing

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Description: A man is operating the lever of a meat (lard) mixing machine to redirect contents into a wheeled container inside the Oscar Mayer plant.
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Oscar Mayer Plant

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Description: View across lawn and parking lot towards the Oscar Mayer plant. A service flag with a large star with the number "1241" is hanging on the side of the build...
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Oscar Mayer Female Employees with Slabs of Meat

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Description: Slightly elevated view of four women standing on both sides of a conveyor belt. Two women are using knives and are holding large pieces of meat, while the ...
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Oscar Mayer Loading Dock

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Description: Men wearing overalls, jackets, hats, and gloves are pushing carts of wooden and cardboard crates which read: "Oscar Mayer, Approved, Fine Foods since 1883,...
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Oscar Mayer Farm

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Description: An man is using a pitchfork to move silage off of a wagon into what may be an ensilage cutter, which is near a silo and barn at the Oscar Mayer farm.
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Oscar Mayer Farm withTractor

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Description: In the foreground on the right is a tractor belt-driving what may be an ensilage cutter. A man is standing on a horse-drawn wagon moving silage into the cu...
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Haystacks in Field

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Description: View from roadside, with a tree in the foreground, towards a field with haystacks, and farm buildings in the distance among trees.
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Driving to the Farm

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Description: View from road, with the front of an automobile on the right, towards a farm. Cows and pigs are in a pasture, and two silos are next to the barn.

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