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Hog Butchering

Date: 1921
Description: Man butchering a hog, which is hanging on a meat hook.
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Man Dressing Butchered Pigs

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Description: Man in boots and a hard hat dresses butchered pigs on meat hooks.
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Pig Freight Car on the Soo Line

Date: 1917
Description: Group of people standing in front of a Soo Line freight car that was used by the railroad to promote hog transportation. This photograph was donated to the...
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Feeding the Hogs

Date: 10 22 1922
Description: A farmer feeding green corn over a fence to hogs on the Puffer farm.
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Pigs Loose in Nakoma

Date: 02 25 1947
Description: Four men wrestling with escaped pigs in the backyard of a home in the Nakoma neighborhood. A truck loaded with about 80 hogs overturned in the 3600 block o...
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Ike Church at a Bar-B-Que

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Description: Ike Church at a CIO bar-b-que, cutting a pork shank.
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Cleaning Hogs for CIO Bar-B-Que

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Description: Two men cleaning hogs for a CIO Bar-B-Que at Highlander Folk School.
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Farmer Feeding Hogs

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Description: A farmer is carrying buckets, presumably to feed his hogs that are following him in the pen.
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International Truck with Farm Animals

Date: 10 13 1938
Description: Two men sit in the bed of an International D-15 motor truck surrounded by cattle and pigs at a feed trough. Barns and a windmill are in the background. The...
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Man on Manure Spreader between Farm Buildings

Date: 1910
Description: Panoramic view of farmer driving a horse-drawn manure spreader (possibly a Kemp) near a farmhouse and a barn. A man is standing on the left. On the right i...
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Josh Gillespie with Hampshire Gilt Pigs

Date: 1926
Description: Josh Gillespie, manager of an International Harvester Company demonstration farm, kneels to feed a corncob to a group of Hampshire gilt pigs.
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Man Feeding Pigs

Date: 1926
Description: A man is holding corncobs in his hand while feeding several pigs on an International Harvester demonstration farm.
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Couple Selling Pork

Date: 02 15 1915
Description: Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Crumley cutting slabs of meat from a hog placed on a wooden table outdoors among trees. Another woman is in the background near some stea...
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Horses at a Logging Camp

Date: 1884
Description: The logging camp of Bruno Vinett. About a dozen horses, most in harness, and a similar number of men stand in front of a barn-like building and a small woo...
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Slaughtered Pigs

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Description: Two men in the process of butchering three large hogs. The hogs hang off of hooks from a track on the ceiling of the slaughterhouse. The man on the right c...
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Farmer Inspecting a Litter of Piglets

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Description: A farmer inspects a sow and litter of six piglets in a pigpen.
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Preparing Hog for Slaughter

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Description: Farmers prepare a hog for slaughter. A group of farmers stand around hog on a long table outdoors. Smoke and steam billow from a stove in the foreground an...
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Farmers Preparing Hog for Slaughter

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Description: Far view of farmers preparing a hog for slaughter. A group of farmers stand around a hog on a long table outside. Smoke and steam billow from a stove in th...
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Large Hog in Farmyard

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Description: A large hog in a farmyard being admired by five men standing behind him.
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"Pigs in Clover"

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait of a young woman posing wearing a dress and bonnet in a studio. She is holding two young pigs. The image was likely used by the McCormick Harvesti...

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