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Meat Market Display

Date: 1939
Description: Woman worker wearing a butcher's apron, poses holding a ham, in a meat market with Easter ham display.
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Industrial Divisions-Packinghouse Workers

Date: 
Description: Men and women packing poultry at the Home Packing Company.
Poster

It's Better with Butter!

Date: 1941
Description: Color poster created by the National Dairy Council, Chicago, of butter and buttered food items such as pancakes, baked potatoes, and a steak, displayed on ...
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Children's Picnic at the Beach

Date: 1950
Description: Woman with children grilling hot dogs and wieners at the beach.
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Meat Market

Date: 1910
Description: A customer waits while butchers stand behind the counter of a butcher shop, surrounded by meat hanging from the ceiling.
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Corn and Brats on the Grill

Date: 06 25 1988
Description: St. Dominic's Catholic Parish members tend the grills at their annual festival.
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Carving the Turkey

Date: 11 25 1965
Description: A man takes pleasure in the carving of the Thanksgiving turkey, with other food items in the foreground and vending machines behind him.
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Taste Test at Oscar Mayer

Date: 10 16 1945
Description: Slightly elevated view of men and women sitting around a table, sampling slices of Oscar Mayer meat products in the Oscar Mayer laboratory. A women in a lo...
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Test Kitchen and Laboratory at Oscar Mayer

Date: 10 16 1945
Description: Slightly elevated view of five women researchers performing various aspects of food research and related activities in a test kitchen and laboratory at the...
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Shopping at Kroger's

Date: 07 1943
Description: A woman shopping in the meat department at the Kroger store at Union Corners, 2541 Winnebago Street. She is there to promote the wartime Oscar Mayer Health...
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Fast Freezer Room

Date: 03 06 1939
Description: Freezer room at 20th Century Market, 1860 East Washington Avenue, with Oscar Mayer's White Clover brand pure lard and other products on the floor and shelv...
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Interior of North St. Market

Date: 04 08 1938
Description: Four employees behind the meat counter in the North St. Meat Market (Jacobson's), 227 North Street.
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Interior of North St. Market

Date: 04 08 1938
Description: Four employees behind the meat counter in the North Street Market, 227 North Street.
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Liddicoat's Market Display

Date: 09 15 1937
Description: Liddicoat's meat and grocery Market, 2925 Atwood Avenue, display at Eastside Business Men's Fall Festival, in Fuller and Johnson building, 51 N. Dickinson ...
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Refrigerator Case at Paulsen's Grocery Store

Date: 07 07 1932
Description: Servel refrigerator case at Paulsen's Grocery Store, 2634 Milwaukee Street.
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Interior of University of Wisconsin Meat Market

Date: 12 21 1931
Description: University of Wisconsin Meat Market interior, showing counters with meat, and display cases and coolers in rear.
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Sides of Beef in Cooler

Date: 12 13 1931
Description: Sides of beef hanging in the Oscar Mayer cooler. There appear to be ferns placed on several of the sides of beef.
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Oscar Mayer Meat Products Display

Date: 12 13 1931
Description: Oscar Mayer meat products on display at a Christmas party.
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Weighing Hams at Oscar Mayer

Date: 11 19 1931
Description: A man weighing hams on a scale at Oscar Mayer.
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Serving a Dinner of Oscar Mayer Ham

Date: 11 20 1931
Description: Dinner for three, Oscar Mayer ham only entree, served in formal dining room.

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