Filling skins, sausage department, Armour's great packing house, Chicago, U.S.A. – Historic Reproduction
(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 Filling skins, sausage department, Armour's great packing house, Chicago, U.S.A. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Filling skins, sausage department, Armour's great packing house, Chicago, U.S.A.
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Workers filling casings in the sausage department of Armour's packing house are the focus of this stereograph, which shows one of the best-known meatpacking operations of its day. Armour & Company ran its large Chicago plant near the Union Stock Yards on the city's South Side, where meat was processed on a scale that drew national attention. The catalog headings also name child labor, a reminder that young workers were common in such plants in the 1890s, and that conditions there were later exposed in Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel *The Jungle*. Published in New York by Strohmeyer & Wyman around 1893, the card was sold to show American industry to home viewers.
| Created / published | New York, N.Y. : Strohmeyer & Wyman, c1893. |
|---|---|
| Genre | Stereographs 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 2353y2 U.S. Copyright Office. Title also in Spanish. |
| Subjects | Meat industry--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900. Child labor--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,417 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-168423 |
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