Chicago - Meat Packing Industry - Swift's Packing House: washing and tagging freshly killed lamb – Vintage 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 Chicago - Meat Packing Industry - Swift's Packing House: washing and tagging freshly killed lamb in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Chicago - Meat Packing Industry - Swift's Packing House: washing and tagging freshly killed lamb
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Workers at Swift's Chicago packing house wash and tag freshly killed lamb, one step in a fast, heavily organized slaughter line. The picture is a stereograph, a card printed with two nearly identical photographs that produce a three-dimensional effect when viewed through a stereoscope, and the H.C. White Company, a major stereograph publisher, issued it. Around 1906, Chicago's meatpacking plants faced intense public scrutiny, and Upton Sinclair's novel *The Jungle* that year exposed unsanitary conditions in the industry, helping prompt federal meat inspection legislation. The date and details come from an old caption card and may have been revised since.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | H74267 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: Meat processing; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,374 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-128069 |
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