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Meat Packing

Date: 08 30 1965
Description: Workers are filling orders of ground steak patties by putting them into corrugated boxes layered with parchment divider paper.
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Oscar Mayer Measuring Filler

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Description: A Harrington Measuring Filler by the Allbright-Nell Co., Chicago, Ill, U.S.A. is dispensing processed meat contents into paper boxes.
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Oscar Mayer Coal Room

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Description: Coal burning heaters with motors line the wall of a room in the Oscar Mayer manufacturing plant. Pipes, dial gauges, and paper record clipboards are mounte...
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Plankinton Meat Packing Strike

Date: 04 20 1948
Description: Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing.
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Oscar Mayer Farmers

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Description: Stockyard farmers are standing and sitting in front of a window booth, with a man sitting inside. Each man is holding a slip of paper. A sign next to the w...
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Oscar Mayer Farmers

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Description: Stockyard farmers are standing and sitting in front of a window booth, with a man sitting inside. Each man is holding a slip of paper. A sign next to the w...
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Oscar Mayer Meeting in Office

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Description: Three men are seen talking and holding pencil and paper inside an office, through a window. Two of the men are wearing work clothes, and the man on the far...
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Plankinton Meat Packing Strike

Date: 04 20 1948
Description: Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing. Strikers are standing on the cobblestone street and sidewalk holding signs that read "Don'...
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Oscar Mayer Meat Display

Date: 06 02 1931
Description: Display of Oscar Mayer meat products. The meat, along with fern leaves as decoration, is displayed on a large sheet of paper placed on a table against a wa...
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Wholesale Meat Market, Washington Street

Date: 1968
Description: A worker examines a hanging haunch of meat in the wholesale meat market on Washington Street, while another worker stands in the background. Also in the ro...
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Oshkosh Packing & Provision Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Oshkosh Packing & Provision Company, a meat packer and preserver, with an illustration of the company buildings on the waterfront, with w...
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Dane Street Scene

Date: 1924
Description: View down a commercial street. There is a meat market on the right, and railroad crossing gates further down the street near other commercial buildings.
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Chas. Genge Meat Market

Date: 1911
Description: Exterior view of the meat market. A man wearing a butcher's jacket stands on the porch alongside a platform scale.
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Street Scene

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Description: A busy street scene. Cars are parked at the curbs along the shops. The shops include: a grocery, a bakery/ice cream shop, a cafe, Prentice brothers hardwar...
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Ludden's Poultry and Eggs

Date: 1921
Description: Exterior view of Ludden's Poultry and Eggs from the dirt road. The shop features a porch, gable roof, and fenced yard. There are wooden crates and barrels ...
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State Bank

Date: 1914
Description: Corner view from unpaved street of the State Bank. A meat market is next door on the left. Flyers on the power poles are for an upcoming fair. A metal and ...
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"I'm a Lifeguard for Good Meats"

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Description: Advertising design for Nepco Meats, Co. showing a man in a sailor hat and overalls floating in a life buoy. Text on the right reads: "I'm a lifeguard for g...
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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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Bloomington Main Street — Alternative View

Date: 1925
Description: View down middle of Main Street. The right side of the street features: Bloomington State Bank, Ira Fox Meat Market, C.H. Enke, Sprague's Recreation Parlor...
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State Bank

Date: 1916
Description: View across street of five men posing on the sidewalk outside the State Bank. Next door to the bank, on the left, is the City Meat Market.

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