Armour elevator
Chicago
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| Title | Armour elevator |
| Description | Caption: "The Armour grain elevator is the largest in the city, and belongs to the millionaire meat packer. The owner is noted for his great wheat operations on the Board of Trade. The vast quantities of the actual product in this immense elevator have often been able to turn the market in his favor. The elevator is located on Goose Island in the Chicago River. The combined capacity of the Chicago elevator warehouses is thirty-one million bushels." |
| Date | 1906 |
| Type | Photographs |
| File Name | chicago00lhne_raw_0015.jp2 |
| Source Page | http://www.archive.org/stream/chicago00lhne#page/12/mode/2up |
| Link to the Full-Text | http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicago00lhne |
| Repository | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Subject | Grain elevators |
| Coverage-Spatial | Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.) |
| Coverage-Temporal | 1900-1909 |
| Publisher | |
| Rights | Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu. |
| Book Title | Chicago |
| Author of the Book | L. H. Nelson Company |
| Collection Title | Picture Chicago |
| Collection | Picture Chicago |
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