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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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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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Moore's Cash Market Interior

Date: 12 12 1933
Description: B. Elmer Moore's Cash (meat) Market, 2333 East Washington Avenue, interior. Five clerks are standing behind the counter, and another man is standing in fro...
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Butchering Hogs

Date: 09 09 1931
Description: Gutted hogs hang from back feet on the Oscar Mayer butchering line with butchers at work.
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Sausage Machine

Date: 06 24 1931
Description: Sausages coming off of the sausage machine at the Madison Packing Company, 307 West Johnson Street. Standing around the machine are eight workers and Oswal...
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Fair Oaks Market Interior

Date: 06 20 1931
Description: Fair Oaks Market interior, with meat counter and other food products, butcher and customers. August F. Schulz was the manager of the store.
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Levenick Brothers Market

Date: 02 28 1928
Description: Interior of Levenick Brothers Meat Market, showing a Toledo Scale. 1406 Williamson Street.
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Levenick Brothers Market

Date: 02 28 1928
Description: Interior of Levenick Brothers Meat Market with Toledo Scale. The market was located at 1406 Williamson Street.
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Veteran Butcher

Date: 09 08 1956
Description: Butcher Herman Nimmer positions his hand saw to cut a slab of meat.
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Butcher with Tools of His Trade

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a butcher wearing an apron, and holding a cleaver and saw.
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Beef Dressing Floor

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Description: A Milwaukee member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers of North America gutting a beef carcass on the dressing floor.
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Roundy Coughlin and Butcher with Sausages

Date: 02 18 1947
Description: Joseph L. "Roundy" Coughlin with butcher and strings of sausages.
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Butcher Shop Interior

Date: 1903
Description: Interior view of the butcher shop section of the Fowler and Holmes Store. There is wood paneling and cabinetry throughout the room, shelving and hooks on t...
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Shops in Victorian Structure

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Description: Shops contained on first floor of a Victorian structure, one of which belongs to a woman named Mary. Standing in front are her husband and two sons. Furthe...
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Frederick Layton

Date: 09 03 1914
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Frederick Layton, Milwaukee butcher.
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City Food Mart

Date: 1935
Description: Five men and three women, employees of City Food Mart, pose in front of the store at 124 Third Street. Signs identify the store as "Baraboo's Newest Comple...
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David A. Marcou

Date: 2008
Description: David A. Marcou, father of the photographer, and meat-cutter, stands underneath a sign in a store.
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Slaughtered Pigs

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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...
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Main Street

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Description: View across unpaved street of a row of stores. On the corner is the Cashton Hardware Company. A horse and wagon is parked at the curb of H. B. Bohl City Me...

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