Chicago - Meat Packing Industry: dressing beef, removing hides and splitting backbones, Swift's Packing House – 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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Step back in time with Chicago - Meat Packing Industry: dressing beef, removing hides and splitting backbones, Swift's Packing House, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Chicago - Meat Packing Industry: dressing beef, removing hides and splitting backbones, Swift's Packing House
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Workers at Swift's packing house in Chicago are shown in the middle of the beef line, stripping hides from carcasses and splitting backbones, the kind of labor that made the city's stockyards famous around 1906. The stereograph was produced by the H.C. White Company, a firm known for paired views sold to parlors and schools, so the scene was meant to be studied in three dimensions. Chicago's meatpacking plants processed enormous numbers of cattle and drew national attention to the city's industrial scale, and the picture offers a close look at the physical, hands-on work behind that reputation.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | H74263 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ill.--C-; Meat processing; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,378 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-128060 |
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