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| Date: | 04 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing. Strikers are standing on the cobblestone street and sidewalk holding signs that read "Don'... |
| Date: | 04 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing. |
| Date: | 08 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Ruby Allman (right), secretary of Local 538 Amalgamated Meat Cutter and Butcher Workmen of North America at Oscar Mayer and Company, signs up Dorothy Braun... |
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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... |
| Date: | 08 31 1927 |
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| Description: | Two men are sitting in the driver's seats of two trucks parked at an angle. The signs painted on the truck read: "T.M. Sinclair & Co., Ltd., Beef and Pork ... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view across machinery towards an Oscar Mayer employee recording information from equipment gauges mounted on the far wall in the backgrou... |
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| Description: | View over beld-driven machinery towards a male employee adjusting apparatus in the engine room? He is surrounded by driver belts, pipes, and motors. |
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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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| Description: | Stockyard farmers are standing and sitting in front of a window booth, with a man sitting inside. Each man is holding a slip of paper. A sign next to the w... |
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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: | 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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| Description: | Stockyard farmers are standing and sitting in front of a window booth, with a man sitting inside. Each man is holding a slip of paper. A sign next to the w... |
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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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