Drover's Cottage at MacCoy's Stock Yard, Abilene, Kansas, 447 miles west of St. Louis, Mo. – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Drover's Cottage at MacCoy's Stock Yard, Abilene, Kansas, 447 miles west of St. Louis, Mo. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Drover's Cottage at MacCoy's Stock Yard, Abilene, Kansas, 447 miles west of St. Louis, Mo.
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Few places on the plains were as tied to the cattle trade as the stockyard at Abilene, Kansas, which this card places 447 miles west of St. Louis. Joseph McCoy's yards opened there in 1867 after the railroad reached the town, giving Texas drovers a railhead for shipping herds east. This stereograph shows a drover's cottage at the yard, a modest dwelling for the men who moved cattle to market. Issued by Gardner's Photographic Art Gallery in Washington in 1867, the card belongs to a series promoting the Union Pacific Railway's Eastern Division, and viewed through a stereoscope, its two nearly identical views create a sense of depth.
| Created / published | Washington : Gardner's Photographic Art Gallery, 1867. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | No. 114. Title from item. Part of series: Across the continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 776 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-132678 |
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