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Contact Sheet-Slaughtering Pigs

Date: 1947
Description: A contact sheet showing workers slaughtering and butchering pigs at Tobin Packing Co. The image at bottom right is of a man in a white coat sitting behind ...
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Processing Meat

Date: 1945
Description: Workers process meat at P. Brennan & Co. Two men are working in the foreground, and two women are working in the background.
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Interior View of P. Brennan & Co

Date: 1945
Description: Two workers at P. Brennan & Co.
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Packinghouse Worker

Date: 1942
Description: Portrait of a meat packinghouse worker wearing a striped hat. He has an unlit cigarette in his mouth. The button on his hat reads: "Vote UPWA CIO."
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Lasley, King, and Helstien

Date: 10 1957
Description: A casual group portrait of Russell Lasley, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ralph Helstein.
Postcard

Oscar Mayer & Co.

Date: 
Description: Aerial view of the Oscar Mayer & Co. with Lake Mendota in the distance. Text on reverse reads: "Pictured here in aerial color view is the meat packing plan...
Postcard

Meat Market

Date: 1910
Description: Interior view of a meat market, with four men standing behind the counters. Deer head trophies are mounted on the back wall. Caption on back reads, in part...
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Belleville Stock Co. Truck

Date: 06 19 1931
Description: Belleville Stock Co. truck at Oscar Mayer's Co. plant.
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Delivery Trucks

Date: 03 15 1928
Description: Right side view of a truck parked in front of buildings. The sign painted on the side of the truck reads: "'Star' Ham and Bacon, Armour Company."
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Fleet of Meat Delivery Trucks

Date: 12 12 1927
Description: View across street towards a fleet of three meat delivery trucks backed up to a building with a sign for: "S.W. Kagan Co. Wholesale Butchers." Three men ar...
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Two Truck Drivers Sitting in Trucks

Date: 08 31 1927
Description: Two men are sitting in the driver's seats of two trucks parked at an angle. The signs painted on the truck read: "T.M. Sinclair & Co., Ltd., Beef and Pork ...
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Oil Valves

Date: 10 09 1939
Description: Group of oil valves in the basement of the Oscar Mayer & Company, 910 Mayer Avenue.
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Oscar Mayer Salesmen

Date: 04 18 1942
Description: Group portrait of Oscar Mayer & Company salesmen.
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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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Oscar Mayer Salesmen

Date: 12 13 1931
Description: Group portrait of Oscar Mayer salesmen taken in front of sides of beef hanging in the cooler.
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Exterior of Dealership

Date: 1900
Description: View across street towards the dealership. Next door on the right is Julius Eckhardt's Meat Market.
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Oscar Mayer "Serving America" Display

Date: 04 18 1942
Description: A female model wearing a long dress is standing on the "Oscar Mayer Serving America" stage set holding a meat product.
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Oscar Mayer "Serving America" Display

Date: 04 18 1942
Description: A female model is standing and wearing a long dress on the "Oscar Mayer Serving America" stage set holding a meat product.
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Oscar Mayer "Serving America" Display

Date: 04 18 1942
Description: A female model wearing a long dress is standing on an "Oscar Mayer Serving America" stage set holding a meat product.
Photograph

Oscar Mayer "Serving America" Display

Date: 04 18 1942
Description: A female model is wearing a long dress and is standing in the "Oscar Mayer Serving America" stage set holding a meat product.

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