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Oscar Mayer Ice House
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Four men in long white coats stack blocks of ice in a large room with a high ceiling. At floor lrevel, two men on the left, one holding a two prong splitting fork, observe, while another slides a block of ice across the wooden floor with an ice hook. A portable elevator occupies the center of the image, and a fourth man stands on top of a wall of ice near the ceiling moving an ice block into place. The ceiling is lined with frost-covered refridgeration evaporator tubes.
circa 1940-1949
Korling, Torkel
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WHi 135186
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Oscar Mayer Ice Making
circa 1940-1949
Two men dressed in long, white jackets and caps use ice hooks to pull blocks of ice from the metal molds in the foreground. A line of ice bricks rests on the floor behind them.
Making Shaved Ice at Oscar Mayer
circa 1940-1949
Two large, hollow blocks of ice rest on a tray next to a large machine dispensing shaved ice into a wheeled container. The machine appears to be feeding blocks of ice from the left into a rotating ...
Oscar Mayer Barrels
circa 1940-1949
View of a room with large wooden barrels stacked and arranged in rows. Between the rows, a series of pipes are coming down from the ceiling. A hose along the floor is attached to a pipe near the ce...
Oscar Mayer Ice Making
circa 1940-1949
View across metal ice-making forms towards two men in long, white jackets and caps using ice hooks to move blocks of ice from the forms onto the floor. There is a brick wall behind the workers and ...
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.
Slab Bacon Curing on Rack
circa 1940-1949
Slabs of unsliced bacon attached to metal combs are hanging to cure on a three-tiered metal rack. The slabs are stamped with "Oscar Mayer Approved" and additional inspection information. The rack a...
