Chicago - Meat Packing Industry: dressing beef, slaughtering floor, Swift & Co.'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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A window into the past: Chicago - Meat Packing Industry: dressing beef, slaughtering floor, Swift & Co.'s Packing House, preserved in this historic photograph. 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, slaughtering floor, Swift & Co.'s Packing House
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Swift & Company's packing house on Chicago's South Side is the setting here, with beef being dressed on the slaughtering floor. The Stock Yards and the packing plants around them made Chicago the center of the American meat trade in the late 1800s and early 1900s, processing livestock on a scale few other industries matched. This stereograph was issued by the H.C. White Co., a firm that sold paired photographs to be viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. The same year it appeared, Upton Sinclair's novel *The Jungle* drew public attention to conditions in these plants, and Congress passed the Meat Inspection Act.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | H73963 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. 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-128061 |
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