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[Beef cutting machine, Armour's, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, U.S.A.] – Antique Print

[Beef cutting machine, Armour's, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, U.S.A.], c1909. — stereograph
[Beef cutting machine, Armour's, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, U.S.A.], c1909.. Stereograph from the Chicago collection.

(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 beef cutting machine at Armour's plant in the Union Stock Yards is the focus of this view, made on Chicago's South Side around 1909. The Stock Yards had grown since the 1860s into one of the largest meatpacking centers in the world, and Armour & Company was among its biggest operations. Public scrutiny of the packing houses intensified after Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel *The Jungle*, which helped spur the federal meat inspection law passed that same year.

Created / publishedc1909.
GenreStereographs 1900-1910.
NotesJ134783 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Kelley & Chadwick.
SubjectsMeat industry--Illinois--Chicago--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,000 × 3,600 px · prints to 10 × 12 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-168290

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