The Great Union Stock Yards of Chicago – Antique Print
(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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Step back in time with The Great Union Stock Yards of Chicago, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Great Union Stock Yards of Chicago
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The Union Stock Yards on Chicago's South Side is the subject here, shown from above in a bird's eye view that lays out its pens, alleys, and rail connections in a single sweep. The yards opened in 1865 and grew into one of the largest livestock markets in the world, with cattle, hogs, and sheep funneled in by a dense web of railroads and then processed by the meatpacking houses that clustered nearby. A lithographed view like this one, issued by a Chicago publisher around 1878, was meant to advertise that scale and to show a city proud of its role as the nation's meat center. Look closely at the rows of pens and the track network, which convey how carefully the complex was organized to move livestock quickly from railcar to slaughter.
| Created / published | Chicago : Published by Walsh & Co., c1878. |
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| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,000 × 2,243 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 22 |
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