Union Stockyards, Atlanta, Georgia, 1909 – Historic Photo 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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Union Stockyards, Atlanta, Georgia, 1909 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Union Stockyards, Atlanta, Ga.
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Union Stockyards, Atlanta, Georgia, 1909
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Atlanta in 1909 was the railroad hub of the Southeast, with lines radiating outward carrying cotton, lumber, and livestock into and out of the city. The Union Stock Yards sat among those tracks, where cattle, hogs, and sheep arrived by train to be penned, sold, and shipped on to slaughterhouses and packing plants. Atlanta's population was growing quickly, and the city was reaching toward the 150,000 mark that the 1910 census would record. Only three years earlier the city had suffered a deadly race riot in September 1906, and in 1909 its commerce was still rebuilding public confidence after that violence. For the drovers, railroad men, and commission merchants who worked there, the yards were a daily fact of city life, and the rail traffic they generated tied Atlanta to markets across the region.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | haines photo co. (conneaut, ohio) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Georgia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,430 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Union Stockyards, Atlanta, Ga. |
| Reference | GA Union Stockyards, Atlanta, 1909 |
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