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| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 11 19 1931 |
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| Description: | Oscar Mayer workers inspecting hams at a work table. |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | Fruit pies speed past Morton assembly line worker Ethel McCollough on their way to the machine in which they will be boxed for freezing. |
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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... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Women workers at a Wisconsin canning factory inspecting corn as it passes by them on conveyor belts. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Two women workers at a Wisconsin pea cannery enjoy a light moment, as the shelled peas they are inspecting pass by on a conveyor belt. Both women are weari... |
| Date: | 05 12 1938 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Two women in paper "Smucker's" hats are watching a man at work in a laboratory beyond a set of windows, presumably at J.M. Smucker Company's Quality Contro... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a hairnet and a white smock reaches towards jars of jam or jelly that appear to be coming off a piece of factory equipment labeled "Pasteur... |
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| Description: | Men shucking oysters while standing in stalls in a building. Caption reads: "Oyster Schucking, Norfolk, VA." |
| Date: | 05 18 1933 |
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| Description: | National Guardsmen, who were sworn in as deputies, approach milk strikers through what appears to be a cloud of smoke. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Cranberries being loaded onto a conveyor belt. Women are sorting cranberries as they move along the belt. |
| Date: | 11 21 1997 |
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| Description: | Two young men are packing boxes with bags of Ocean Spray cranberries. In the background women are bagging the cranberries. |
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