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| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Four women operating sausage-making equipment at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II. |
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| Description: | Sid talking to two employees in the Oscar Mayer Company. All three men are wearing long white coats and hats. Sid is standing in the middle next to meat ha... |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Description: | Three men a moving packaged ham from a conveyor belt and putting it onto a vertical rack behind them. |
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| Description: | Three men are working to hang processed ham roasts, which are individually packaged in mesh bags, onto racks suspended from the ceiling. |
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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... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| 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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