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Stunning Cattle
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A packing house worker demonstrates the revolutionary Thor air-powered cattle stunner that was called the first successful pneumatic stunning tool for the meat-packing industry. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals hailed it as an outstanding humane slaughter development because the stunner rendered cattle unconscious instantaneously by driving an automatically retracting metal pin into the animal's brain, making slaughter painless.
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WHi 11793
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Madison Packing Company
February 28, 1928
Madison Packing Company interior showing animal carcasses and Toledo Scale.
Meat Packing
August 30, 1965
Workers are filling orders of ground steak patties by putting them into corrugated boxes layered with parchment divider paper.
Jacob E. Decker & Sons Packing Plant
A copy of a promotional postcard showing the Jacob E. Decker & Sons packing plant, factories, railroad, and grazing animals. All contribute to the production of Elk brand of hams and bacon. Text at...
Oshkosh Packing & Provision Co. Letterhead
Letterhead of the Oshkosh Packing & Provision Company, a meat packer and preserver, with an illustration of the company buildings on the waterfront, with workers tending cattle in the yard, driving...
Killing Alligators
1655
Engraving made after a painting by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (died 1588) while on the Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1564.
