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| Date: | 10 17 1939 |
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| Description: | Women working in casing department at the Oscar Mayer & Company meat packing plant, 910 Mayer Avenue. |
| Date: | 08 30 1965 |
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| Description: | Workers are filling orders of ground steak patties by putting them into corrugated boxes layered with parchment divider paper. |
| Date: | 10 15 1943 |
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| Description: | Oscar Mayer Company cafeteria, showing workers standing in a food line. |
| Date: | 09 27 1943 |
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| Description: | Oscar Mayer Company cafeteria, showing counter in the background, and women sitting at tables in the foreground. |
| Date: | 09 27 1943 |
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| Description: | Oscar Mayer Company cafeteria showing counter in the background, and women sitting at tables in the foreground. |
| Date: | 10 17 1939 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of female workers in the casing department of Oscar Mayer & Company, located at 910 Mayer Avenue. |
| Date: | 02 28 1928 |
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| Description: | Oscar Mayer plant interior with Toledo Scale. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Women are stamping hams with the USDA grade stamp and the Oscar Mayer label as the hams move by on an assembly line. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Female employee inspecting the quality of "Yellow Band" weiners at Oscar Mayer plant, 910 Mayer Avenue. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Four women operating sausage-making equipment at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Four women butcher workers in white lab coats hand tie sausage links at the Oscar Mayer plant. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Women members of Local 231, of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers of North America preparing turkeys for the market. |
| Date: | 09 1959 |
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| Description: | Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 167 on strike outside the Swift & Co. plant in St. Paul. |
| Date: | 09 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Striking members of Amalgamated Meatcutters Local 28 picketing at the Swift and Company plant in Chicago. |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Women workers on strike against the Holly Farms Poultry Company, posed outside for a "solidarity" picture. Dorothy Johnson, wearing the third picket sign f... |
| Date: | 01 16 1946 |
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| Description: | On the first day of their strike against the Cudahy Company, picketing workers in New York City permit the loading of cartons of ham and bacon for city hos... |
| Date: | 05 1948 |
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| Description: | The message of United Packinghouse Workers of American picketers gained force when members who were veterans wore their uniforms. One picket sign reads "We... |
| 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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