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Stock yards and tower
Stock yards and Packingtown
Michael Donnelly addressing crowd
Stock yards and tower
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
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 ...
Stock yards and Packingtown
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
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 m...
Michael Donnelly addressing crowd
Image | 1904 |
Picture Chicago
September 1904.
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