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| Date: | 12 12 1933 |
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| Description: | B. Elmer Moore's Cash (meat) Market, 2333 East Washington Avenue, interior. Five clerks are standing behind the counter, and another man is standing in fro... |
| Date: | 11 19 1931 |
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| Description: | Oscar Mayer workers inspecting hams at a work table. |
| Date: | 10 30 1931 |
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| Description: | A food scientist looking through a microscope at Oscar Mayer. |
| Date: | 09 09 1931 |
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| Description: | Gutted hogs hang from back feet on the Oscar Mayer butchering line with butchers at work. |
| 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: | 06 20 1931 |
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| Description: | Fair Oaks Market interior, with meat counter and other food products, butcher and customers. August F. Schulz was the manager of the store. |
| Date: | 02 28 1928 |
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| Description: | Interior of Levenick Brothers Meat Market, showing a Toledo Scale. 1406 Williamson Street. |
| Date: | 02 28 1928 |
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| Description: | Oscar Mayer plant interior with Toledo Scale. |
| Date: | 10 27 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers removing bones from tuna and selecting different cuts to be used for canned food. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Packinghouse workers splitting a carcass into halves. |
| 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: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Female employees processing "Yellow Band" weiners at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II. |
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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. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Four women butcher workers in white lab coats hand tie sausage links at the Oscar Mayer plant. |
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| Description: | A Milwaukee member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers of North America gutting a beef carcass on the dressing floor. |
| 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. |
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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: | Distribution of holiday turkeys and spam to striking members of the UPWA union. The truck was sent by the local in neighboring Austin where Spam was produc... |
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