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Title
Wilson & Company's workers packing sausage, ca.1930
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of Wilson & Company's workers packing sausage, ca.1930. Two men stand on either side of a stack of crates to the left. The crates sit atop a wooden dolly on a brick floor with dirt and stains all over. The side of the crate is labeled with the Wilson & Company logo while a box that one of the men holds over the crates reads " Sausage Vienna Style". To the right of center, one woman uses both hands to work on the sausage links that hang from a pole in front of her while five woman to the right stand in a row packing sausages into boxes. The boxes that lay on the table in front of them read "Sausage Frankfurt Style". All of the woman wear long lightly colored coats over their clothing with bonnets on their heads. Sausages can be seen hanging in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12003
USC-2-1-1-12155 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40764
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12003
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40764.jpg
Subject
Industry--Food
Meat
Meat industry and trade
Meat cutting
Wilson and Company
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
40764 [Accession number]
84-1-706 [Microfiche number]
CHS-40764 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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