South Omaha Stock Yards, Nebraska, 1908 – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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South Omaha Stock Yards, Nebraska, 1908 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Stock yards, South Omaha, Neb.
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South Omaha Stock Yards, Nebraska, 1908
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South Omaha in 1908 was a packing and livestock town built around the Union Stock Yards, which had opened in 1884 on land along the Missouri River flats south of Omaha proper. Cattle, hogs and sheep arrived by rail from the Plains and were sold, held in pens and shipped east or sent to the meatpacking houses that lined the district, making the yards one of the largest livestock markets in the country. South Omaha had been an independent city until it was annexed to Omaha in 1915, and in 1908 its residents were largely immigrant workers, many of them Bohemian, Irish and Eastern European, who labored in the packing plants and rail yards. The panorama captures that crowded industrial landscape at the height of its activity.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Creator | bandholtz, f. j. (frederick j.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Nebraska |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,207 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Stock yards, South Omaha, Neb. |
| Reference | NE South Omaha Stock Yards 1908 |
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