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Madison Packing Company

Date: 02 28 1928
Description: Madison Packing Company interior showing animal carcasses and Toledo Scale.
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Meat Market Window and Meat Case

Date: 09 01 1950
Description: View of meat case, looking through meat market window, taken for Madison Packing Company, 308 West Dayton Street.
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Kroger Company Meat Case

Date: 10 07 1950
Description: View along the meat case at one of the Kroger Company's eight grocery stores in Madison. The company also has a bakery at 1053 East Washington Avenue.
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Madison Vocational School Cooking School

Date: 01 25 1954
Description: Student Warren Olsen flipping over a roast in the cooking school at the Madison Vocational School.
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Oscar Mayer's Test Kitchens

Date: 02 26 1964
Description: Rose Kepler demonstrates how easy it is to cut a boneless ham developed in Oscar Mayer's test kitchens in Madison.
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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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Kroger Store

Date: 12 30 1954
Description: Products stand on display in the meat department in the Madison East Kroger grocery story at 2829 East Washington Avenue.
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Woman Buying Chickens at Madison Packing Company

Date: 1926
Description: View towards a woman standing at the meat counter of the Madison Packing Company. She is buying chickens from a man standing behind the counter which has a...
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Restaurant Institute at Madison Vocational School

Date: 01 17 1951
Description: Chef Instructor Eldred Heiser looking on as student William Moran of Boscobel is slicing a leg of veal for noon lunch at the newly-opened Restaurant Instit...
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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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Wisconsin Spring Market Hog Show

Date: 02 24 1961
Description: More than 150 Madison area young people in vocational-agricultural classes and 4-H clubs took part in the activity of judging 20 pork cuts and placing 10 l...
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I'm A Farmer's Wife

Date: 04 06 1973
Description: Women picketing at a shopping center, urging others to boycott meat. One woman is wearing a sign on her back that reads: "I'm a farmer's wife."
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Meat Boycott

Date: 04 06 1973
Description: Two women picketing in front of a shopping center urging the boycotting of meat. One woman carries a NFO sign that reads: "Farm families must be paid for t...
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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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Trimming Hams at Oscar Mayer

Date: 11 19 1931
Description: Men trimming hams at their jobs at Oscar Mayer.
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Table Set for Dinner with Oscar Mayer Ham

Date: 09 17 1931
Description: Table set for dinner with Oscar Mayer ham.
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Oscar Mayer Co., Breakfast Display

Date: 09 16 1931
Description: Oscar Mayer Co., breakfast table, display of sausages and wheatcakes.
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Oscar Mayer Kitchen

Date: 09 09 1931
Description: A woman slicing ham in the Oscar Mayer kitchen.
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Oscar Mayer Plant Interior Ventilation System

Date: 09 22 1953
Description: The interior ventilation system at the Oscar Mayer Plant, taken for Kulzick Advertising.
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Oscar Mayer Rack of Ham

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Description: Packaged ham roasts are hanging from strings on a metal rack suspended from the ceiling.

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