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Oscar Mayer Farmers

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Description: Stockyard farmers are standing and sitting in front of a window booth, with a man sitting inside. Each man is holding a slip of paper. A sign next to the w...
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Oscar Mayer Farmers

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Description: Stockyard farmers are standing and sitting in front of a window booth, with a man sitting inside. Each man is holding a slip of paper. A sign next to the w...
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Oscar Mayer Rack of Ham

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Description: Packaged ham roasts are hanging from strings on a metal rack suspended from the ceiling.
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Indexing Wieners

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Description: Close-up view of individual wieners on a conveyor belt moving towards an indexing and labeling machine.
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Oscar Mayer Water Tower

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Description: View looking up between buildings and other structures towards the water tower at Oscar Mayer.
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Dressing Oscar Mayer Pigs

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Description: Four male Oscar Mayer employees dressing (gutting) slaughtered pigs in a cooler processing room.
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Oscar Mayer Measuring Filler

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Description: A Harrington Measuring Filler by the Allbright-Nell Co., Chicago, Ill, U.S.A. is dispensing processed meat contents into paper boxes.
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Oscar Mayer Pig Pen

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Description: View of a room full of pigs which are being cooled off by a sprinkler system installed along the indoor pen.
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Oscar Mayer Ham Storage

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Description: Three men a moving packaged ham from a conveyor belt and putting it onto a vertical rack behind them.
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Oscar Mayer Sausage Storage

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Description: A room with bologna and braunschweiger sausages hanging from racks which are made of a combination of metal frames and wooden cross bars.
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Oscar Mayer Ham Storage

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Description: Three men are working to hang processed ham roasts, which are individually packaged in mesh bags, onto racks suspended from the ceiling.
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Oscar Mayer Cleveland Bologna Sausage

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Description: View of a large room of packaged Oscar Mayer Cleveland Bologna Sausage. The sausages are hanging from rods on metal frames suspended from the ceiling.
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Stamping Hams

Date: 1945
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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Oscar Mayer Equipment

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Description: Slightly elevated view across machinery towards an Oscar Mayer employee recording information from equipment gauges mounted on the far wall in the backgrou...
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Oscar Mayer Meat Trimming

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Description: Close-up of an Oscar Mayer employee wearing cut resistant gloves using a large knife to trim fat from a slab of pork.
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Oscar Mayer Meat Processing

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Description: Elevated view of a man holding the lever of a meat(lard) mixing machine to redirect contents into a wheeled container inside the Oscar Mayer plant.
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Meat Curing on Rack

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Description: Close-up of meat hanging to cure on a metal rack hanging from the ceiling. The slabs are stamped with "Oscar Mayer Approved."
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Weiner Indexing/Labeling Machine

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Description: View of an Oscar Mayer wiener indexing and labeling machine, which has an attached sorting and holding section. Links of wieners are hanging on racks in th...
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Wiener Indexing/Labeling Machine

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Description: Side view of an Oscar Mayer Wiener wiener indexing and labeling machine, without the attached sorting and holding section. Links of wieners are hanging on ...
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Oscar Mayer Ham Storage

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Description: Three men are handling packaged hams. They are transferring the hams from a conveyer belt and hanging them onto a vertical rack behind them.

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