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Oscar Mayer Test Kitchen
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Slightly elevated view of five women workers in an Oscar Mayer & Company test kitchen. A low wall separates two women working at desks on the left from three women in the kitchen on the right. On the right, one woman fries food on the stove, one unpacks sausages on a tabletop, and an African American woman cleans the sink.
October 16, 1945
Korling, Torkel
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W014C8N
WHi 12793
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Test Kitchen at Oscar Mayer
October 16, 1945
Slightly elevated view of five women performing food research and related activities in a test kitchen at Oscar Mayer & Co. A woman cuts sausage at a table in the foreground; another cooks at a sto...
Taste Test at Oscar Mayer
October 16, 1945
A group of six men and women sit around a table, sampling slices of sausage in a part of the Oscar Mayer test kitchen styled to look like a domestic interior. They are writing notes on sheets of pa...
Oscar Mayer Sausage Aging Room
circa 1940-1949
A room with Yellow Band bologna and braunschweiger sausages hanging from removable wooden sticks placed into metal-frame racks.
Oscar Mayer Cleveland Bologna Sausage
circa 1940-1949
A large roomful of rolling metal racks suspended from the ceiling, which are filled with packaged Oscar Mayer Cleveland Bologna Sausage hanging from wooden rods set into the racks.
Taste Testing Yellow Band Wieners
circa 1940-1949
A group of six men and women sit around a table, sampling slices of yellow band wieners in a part of the Oscar Mayer test kitchen styled to look like a domestic interior. They are writing notes on ...
Stamping Hams
1944-1945
Two women stamp hams with the Oscar Mayer label as the hams move by on an assembly line in front of them. The woman in the center wears her employee ID badge. In the background a man and woman rece...
