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| 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: | 06 24 1931 |
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| Description: | Sausages coming off of the sausage machine at the Madison Packing Company, 307 West Johnson Street. Standing around the machine are eight workers and Oswal... |
| 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: | Using a power tool, a member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America is cutting up a hanging beef carcass. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of about 29 employees manufacturing sausages at the Oscar Mayer & Co. plant. Caption reads: "This view of the sparkling Sausage Kitchen at Os... |
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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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | An individual wearing bib overalls is standing on the far left (out of frame), and controlling a machine by pushing a button with one hand and holding a ho... |
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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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