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Casing Department at Oscar Mayer

Date: 10 17 1939
Description: Women working in casing department at the Oscar Mayer & Company meat packing plant, 910 Mayer Avenue.
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Oscar Mayer Casing Workers

Date: 10 17 1939
Description: Group portrait of female workers in the casing department of Oscar Mayer & Company, located at 910 Mayer Avenue.
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Cheese Wrapping

Date: 1950
Description: Women wearing white smocks or aprons wrap slabs of cheese for distribution.
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Sausage Making

Date: 1944
Description: Four women operating sausage-making equipment at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II.
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Grading and Sorting Cranberries

Date: 1970
Description: Cranberries being loaded onto a conveyor belt. Women are sorting cranberries as they move along the belt.
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McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1900
Description: Factory workers stand at tables while working to assemble farm equipment at the McCormick Reaper Works factory.
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Widmer Cheese Factory Interview

Date: 10 1990
Description: "Mike Jacobs of Milwaukee Journal TV4 interviews Ralph Widmer."
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars

Date: 02 1995
Description: Janet Wendling and Marilyn Zingsheim package brick cheese at Widmer Cheese.
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Workers at Hillsboro Canning Plant

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Description: Interior view of the Hillsboro Canning Plant. A row of female and male workers are standing amongst the plant's corn processing machinery. The women have t...
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Oscar Mayer Pork Salting

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Description: Slightly elevated view of four men in hats, aprons, and rubber gloves standing around two deep bins of what may be salt. Next to the salting station are st...
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Oscar Mayer Pork Salting

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Description: Slightly elevated view of four men standing around two bins while grabbing slabs of pork that may be bacon? The containers may have salt for processing?
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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 Meat Processing

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Description: Elevated view of a man holding 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 Meat Processing

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Description: Two men are standing on either side of a large meat processing machine. On the far right a man is standing by rough looking contents that are in large meta...
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Oscar Mayer Meat Processing

Date: 
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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Traditional Swiss Cheese Production at the West Middleton Cheese Cooperative

Date: 06 03 1954
Description: Cheese makers Alfred Abplanalp (right) and Bernard Cupp perform the old-time Swiss cheese making method of using cheese cloth to skim the curd from the top...
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Traditional Swiss Cheese Production at the West Middleton Cheese Cooperative

Date: 06 03 1954
Description: Cheese makers Bernard Cupp (right) and Alfred Abplanalp (left) completing the process of skimming curd from a vault of whey by lifting the cheese cloth bag...
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Canning Factory

Date: 1977
Description: Slightly elevated view of women who are working processing corn on a canning assembly line at the Fall River Canning Company. They are wearing aprons and g...
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Interior View of P. Brennan & Co

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