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Oscar Mayer Hams Curing
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Room full of smoked hams suspended by cords from three-tiered metal racks hanging from overhead rails. Salt is on the floor. The hams are stamped: "Oscar Mayer Approved, Tender Process, U.S. INS. & PSD. EST 537." The hams appear to have the texture of the mesh bags in which they were smoked.
circa 1940-1949
Korling, Torkel
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W014C8O
WHi 135210
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Rack of Smoked Meat
circa 1940-1949
Large, skin-on cuts of meat, possibly picnic shoulder, are suspended by cords from a three-tiered metal rack hanging from an overhead rail. Salt is on the floor. The hams are stamped: "537-A, U.S. ...
Oscar Mayer Hams Curing
circa 1940-1949
Room full of smoked hams suspended by cords from three-tiered metal racks hanging from overhead rails. Salt is on the floor. The hams are stamped: "Oscar Mayer Approved, Tender Process" with inspec...
Unloading Hams from Oscar Mayer Smoking Chamber
circa 1940-1949
Three men in white caps and overcoats unload smoked hams, each individually packaged in a mesh bag, from from the Oscar Mayer smoking chamber and hang them onto three-tiered metal racks suspended f...
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...
Loading Oscar Mayer Hams into the Smoker
circa 1940-1949
Three men lift hams enclosed in mesh bags from a conveyor belt and hang them on a smoking rack behind them. The rack is inside the opening to the automated smoking system at Oscar Mayer's Madison p...
Trimming Oscar Mayer Ham
circa 1940-1949
Close-up of an Oscar Mayer employee trimming fat from a ham with a large knife. He is wearing an apron, and a partial steel mesh glove, which covers the thumb and first two fingers of his left hand...
