Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | An International L-180 truck owned by the Holly Meat Packing Company is being backed up by a male driver from the street to a loading door at the company's... |
Date: | 1941 |
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Description: | Men work in the meat processing room at Schwab & Company where machinery is powered by two International PA-50 power units and one PA-100 unit. |
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... |
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Description: | In this uncaptioned photograph from their archives, members of the United Packinghouse Workers union are seen standing on two sound trucks speaking to the ... |
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Description: | Strikers from the United Packinghouse Workers union in Topeka taking a coffee break from their picketing. The strikers were employees of the Hill Packing C... |
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: | 1953 |
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Description: | Outside a Chicago A&P grocery store, striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America urge shoppers to boycott products of the Cudahy company... |
Date: | 1965 |
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Description: | Iowa Beef Packers, later IBP, revolutionized the meat industry during the 1960s by introducing numerous innovations including the hiring of low paid worker... |
Date: | 1965 |
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Description: | Iowa Beef Packers, later IBP, revolutionized the meat industry during the 1960s by introducing numerous innovations. The use of low wage workers led to con... |
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Description: | Members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America employed at the Jones company in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, celebrate after an election victory. |
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Description: | Workers at an Armour plant package bacon for the market. In addition to their hats that say "Anytime is turkey time," the women are all wearing their Amalg... |
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Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Oscar G. Mayer, Jr. (1914-2009), who became president of Oscar Mayer & Co. in 1955. Mayer was also an important Madison ph... |
Date: | 1962 |
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Description: | Members of Milwaukee Livestock Handlers, Local 567 of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers Union, celebrate their 10th anniversary. |
Date: | 10 03 1951 |
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Description: | Joyce Bergmann, Waunakee, opens a file drawer in an office. She is the private secretary for Adolph C. Bolz, vice-president and plant manager of Oscar Maye... |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | A worker examines a hanging haunch of meat in the wholesale meat market on Washington Street, while another worker stands in the background. Also in the ro... |
Date: | 1921 |
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Description: | View from across street of two men in butchers' aprons standing outside the River Grove Meat Market storefront. |
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Description: | View down South Dubuque Street featuring Hotel Jefferson in the distance at left, built in 1913 with a Classical Revival influence. Automobiles, cable cars... |
Date: | 1921 |
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Description: | A butcher holds a knife as he weighs a piece of meat on a hanging scale. A male customer wearing a one-piece work suit and hat waits on the opposite side o... |
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'... |
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