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| Date: | 1947 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 12 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu page of the Christmas booklet from Truax Army Air Field, with a pinned-up drawing of a turkey perched on one leg on a butcher block ta... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Unionized slaughterhouse workers of the P. Brennan Company of Chicago. |
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| Description: | Farmers prepare a hog for slaughter. A group of farmers stand around hog on a long table outdoors. Smoke and steam billow from a stove in the foreground an... |
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| Description: | Far view of farmers preparing a hog for slaughter. A group of farmers stand around a hog on a long table outside. Smoke and steam billow from a stove in th... |
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| Description: | Six men of the Spiegel family stand outdoors around a long wooden table butchering chickens. The table is covered with large steel pots and pieces of meat.... |
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| Description: | A packinghouse worker at an unidentified slaughterhouse butchering a pig. A button on his hat reads, "No raise, no work". |
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| Description: | Two men in the process of butchering three large hogs. The hogs hang off of hooks from a track on the ceiling of the slaughterhouse. The man on the right c... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Oscar Mayer & Company, 910 Mayer Avenue at Packers Avenue. Shows stock yards, railroad cars and automobile parking lot. Also shows C.E. & P.... |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Engraving made after a painting by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (died 1588) while on the Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1564. |
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| Description: | A group of African American packinghouse workers at an unidentified location cutting slabs of pork. |
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| Description: | A group of packinghouse workers on the processing line, tending to pigs. |
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| Description: | A woman worker on the poultry line at an unidentified packer, probably in Chicago. All of the other workers, all of whom were represented by the Amalgamate... |
| Date: | 02 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Oscar Mayer stockyard employees, and one man in a business suit, gathered near the Farm Service Studio in the Oscar Mayer plant, 910 Maye... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Oscar G. Mayer, Jr., (left) and another Oscar Mayer & Co. official examine plans for a hog immobilization unit to be constructed at the rear of the company... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Four dead hogs hang from a pole outside at night ready for butchering. The hogs hang with their heads facing the ground and their bellies and throats slit.... |
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| Description: | An unidentified man (Myles Horton?) using an axe to cut off a chicken's head. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat and suspenders is using an axe to slaughter a chicken, using a log as a base. A large pile of firewood is behind him. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Women members of Local 231, of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers of North America preparing turkeys for the market. |
| Date: | 02 28 1928 |
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| Description: | Madison Packing Company interior showing animal carcasses and Toledo Scale. |
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