Stock yards and tower
Chicago
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Title | Stock yards and tower |
Description | Caption: "All visitors to Chicago are sure to include a trip to the celebrated stock yards during their sojourn in the city. Thousands of head of cattle are slaughtered here daily. The cattle are housed in hundreds of pens covering three hundred and twenty acres. The problem of supplying this immense area with water was solved by the building of a great tower, from which it is distributed among the pens." |
Date | 1906 |
Type | Photographs |
File Name | chicago00lhne_raw_0026.jp2 |
Source Page | http://www.archive.org/stream/chicago00lhne#page/24/mode/2up |
Link to the Full-Text | http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicago00lhne |
Repository | University of Illinois at Chicago |
Subject | |
Coverage-Spatial | New City (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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Stock yards and tower |