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Stripping Tuna

Date: 10 27
Description: Elevated view of workers removing bones from tuna and selecting different cuts to be used for canned food.
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Hot Dog Quality Control Inspection

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Description: Quality control expert William E. Zimmanck, who began working for Oscar Mayer at age thirteen, inspecting a string of hot dogs.
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Grading and Sorting Cranberries

Date: 10 1969
Description: Women work along an assembly line grading and sorting cranberries.
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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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Egg Separation

Date: 01 27 1936
Description: Women divide eggs into whites and yolks at Washington Co-operative Egg & Poultry Association.
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Workers Packing Ice Cream Sticks in Shipping Boxes

Date: 1977
Description: Two women are standing at the end of a machine which is packaging Lilly Ice Cream sticks. The machine is placing ice cream sticks in individual wrappers, a...
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Perfume Factory

Date: 07 1945
Description: View from side of women sitting in a row working on an assembly line in a perfume factory.
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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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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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