[Stockyards, Chicago(?)] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Stockyards, Chicago(?)], [between 1900 and 1950] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4f/4f8a803e103f-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: [Stockyards, Chicago(?)], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Stockyards, Chicago(?)]
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Chicago's stockyards are the subject here, though the catalog record hedges the location with a question mark, so the scene may or may not be the city's famous complex. The Union Stock Yards on the city's South Side opened in 1865 and grew into the center of the American meatpacking trade, handling livestock shipped in by rail from across the Midwest and Plains. Photographs from this period often show the pens, alleys, and crowds of workers and animals that made the yards a symbol of industrial scale. Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel *The Jungle* later drew national attention to conditions there.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1950] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Wittemann Collection. No. 1217. |
| Subjects | Meat industry--United States--1900-1950. Stockyards--United States--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,302 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-183836 |
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