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Northwest Airways Special Delivery

Date: 04 07 1933
Description: In an obvious publicity stunt, a Northwest Airways pilot delivers the first case of post-Prohibition Atlas Beer to Madison distributor Ira Chambers. The sh...
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Ham Inspection at Oscar Mayer

Date: 11 19 1931
Description: Oscar Mayer workers inspecting hams at a work table.
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Butchering Hogs

Date: 09 09 1931
Description: Gutted hogs hang from back feet on the Oscar Mayer butchering line with butchers at work.
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Beef Dressing Floor

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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.
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Butchering Beef

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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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Trimming Poultry

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Description: A woman worker on the poultry line at an unidentified packer, probably in Chicago. All of the other workers, all of whom were represented by the Amalgamate...
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Davern's Bottling Works

Date: 05 12 1938
Description: Workers standing at a machine putting bottles into crates. One of the workers is wearing an apron and rubber knee-high boots. A McCormick-Deering eight can...
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Oyster Shucking

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Description: Men shucking oysters while standing in stalls in a building. Caption reads: "Oyster Schucking, Norfolk, VA."
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National Guardsmen During Milk Strike

Date: 05 18 1933
Description: National Guardsmen, who were sworn in as deputies, approach milk strikers through what appears to be a cloud of smoke.
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Workers at Hillsboro Canning Plant

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Description: Interior view of the Hillsboro Canning Plant. A row of female and male workers are standing amongst the plant's corn processing machinery. The women have t...
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Fisherman at a Tavern

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Description: A fisherman in a ball cap and socks is sitting on a bar stool and talking to the bartender, who is smoking a cigarette and holding a liquor bottle. His wad...
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Canning Carp

Date: 11 1936
Description: A man wearing a long leather apron, cap and gloves is operating a machine that secures lids to cans. Written on the reverse of the print is the description...
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Oscar Mayer Pork Salting

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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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Oscar Mayer Pork Salting

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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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Oscar Mayer Pork Storage

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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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Section of Breaking Room

Date: 1937
Description: Long white gowns cover the street clothing of women at work separating egg yolks and whites into glass cups in the egg-breaking room of the Northern Wiscon...

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