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Union Stock Yards
Chicago, the marvelous city of the West : a history, an encyclopedia, and a guide: 1893: illustrated

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Title
Union Stock Yards
Creator
Vandercook Co.  
Description
  • some 200 acres being devoted to yards, etc., while the balance is occupied by railroad tracks and car sidings. Before you, as you enter the main arch-way, is a town with twenty miles of streets, twenty miles of water-troughs, fifty miles of feeding troughs and about seventy-five miles of water and drainage pipes... Just inside the entrance to the Union Stock Yards is the Exchange building, where the visitor will find the offices and counting rooms of the men who practically transact the live stock business of Chicago. These are modestly styled commission men, but they are in reality merchants, and many of them are engaged very extensively in the cattle traffic, independently of their commission business."
  • in the former town of Lake, now within the corporate limits, about five and one-half miles southwest of the City Hall. ... The Union Stock Yards were organized and opened in 1865. The Stock Yards Company at the present time own 400 acres of land--320 acres in one block and eighty acres in outlying lots. The larger tract is devoted to the stock yards
  • Caption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] Union Stock Yards, Looking toward the Exchange. [See ""Great Industries."]". From text: "Located on South Halsted st.
Date
1893  
Type
Photograph  
File Name
chicagomarvelous00flin_raw_0381.jp2
Source Page
http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagomarvelous00flin#page/292/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Text
http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagomarvelous00flin
Subject
Stockyards  
Coverage-Spatial
New City (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal
1890-1899  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Rights Description
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, the marvelous city of the West : a history, an encyclopedia, and a guide: 1893: illustrated  
Author of the Book
Flinn, John J. (John Joseph), 1851-1929  
Collection Title
Picture Chicago
Collection
Picture Chicago
TitleUnion Stock Yards
CreatorVandercook Co.  
Description
  • some 200 acres being devoted to yards, etc., while the balance is occupied by railroad tracks and car sidings. Before you, as you enter the main arch-way, is a town with twenty miles of streets, twenty miles of water-troughs, fifty miles of feeding troughs and about seventy-five miles of water and drainage pipes... Just inside the entrance to the Union Stock Yards is the Exchange building, where the visitor will find the offices and counting rooms of the men who practically transact the live stock business of Chicago. These are modestly styled commission men, but they are in reality merchants, and many of them are engaged very extensively in the cattle traffic, independently of their commission business."
  • in the former town of Lake, now within the corporate limits, about five and one-half miles southwest of the City Hall. ... The Union Stock Yards were organized and opened in 1865. The Stock Yards Company at the present time own 400 acres of land--320 acres in one block and eighty acres in outlying lots. The larger tract is devoted to the stock yards
  • Caption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] Union Stock Yards, Looking toward the Exchange. [See ""Great Industries."]". From text: "Located on South Halsted st.
Date1893  
TypePhotograph  
File Namechicagomarvelous00flin_raw_0381.jp2
Source Pagehttp://www.archive.org/stream/chicagomarvelous00flin#page/292/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Texthttp://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagomarvelous00flin
SubjectStockyards  
Coverage-SpatialNew City (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal1890-1899  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
RightsNo Copyright - United States
Rights DescriptionImages 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 TitleChicago, the marvelous city of the West : a history, an encyclopedia, and a guide: 1893: illustrated  
Author of the BookFlinn, John J. (John Joseph), 1851-1929  
Collection TitlePicture Chicago
CollectionPicture Chicago

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