Stock yards and Packingtown
Chicago
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| Title | Stock yards and Packingtown |
| Description | Caption: "Stock yards and Packingtown in distance[.] Beyond the pens at the stock yards, lies Packingtown, where the slaughtered meats are prepared for the markets of the world. It is here that several of the famous millionaires of Chicago made their great fortunes. One noted packing firm killed 712,000 cattle, 1,714,000 hogs, and nearly 500,000 sheep in a single year. The meat sales aggregated $66,000,000." |
| Date | 1906 |
| Type | Photographs |
| File Name | chicago00lhne_raw_0027.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 |
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| Coverage-Spatial | New City (Chicago, Ill.) |
| Coverage-Temporal | 1900-1909 |
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| 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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