[Hog scraping rail, Armour's Packing Plant, Chicago, U.S.A.] – Historic Reproduction
![[Hog scraping rail, Armour's Packing Plant, Chicago, U.S.A.], c1909. — stereograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/75/750815aca14b-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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This rare stereograph captures [Hog scraping rail, Armour's Packing Plant, Chicago, U.S.A.] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Hog scraping rail, Armour's Packing Plant, Chicago, U.S.A.]
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A rail carrying hogs through the scraping stage at Armour's packing plant sets this stereograph apart from other views of Chicago's meatpacking houses. After scalding, carcasses hung from overhead rails were moved past workers who scraped off the bristles, one step in a fast disassembly line that made the city's packers famous. Kelley & Chadwick issued the card around 1909, a few years after Upton Sinclair's *The Jungle* (1906) drew public attention to conditions in the packing houses. Stereo cards like this one were meant to be viewed through a hand viewer, letting armchair visitors tour industries they would never see in person.
| Created / published | c1909. |
|---|---|
| Genre | Stereographs 1900-1910. |
| Notes | J134791 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Kelley & Chadwick. |
| Subjects | Meat industry--Illinois--Chicago--1900-1910. Swine--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,325 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-168297 |
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