Chicago Stockyard’s Arch
Stockyards!
A Postcard!?
Hog Carcasses
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( Chicago Historical Society photo ) The stockyards, shown here in 1902, consisted of rail lines that brought in animals, left, and the meatpacking plants, Swift and Armour, at right.
Packingtown Neighbors
Beef!
Stockyard Strike, 1904
Sheep waiting at the Gate!
Cows being slaughtered on the killing floors at one of the packing houses.
Men skinning carcasses at Armour and carrying sides of beef to the freezers.
The author, Upton Sinclair, selling copies of the Fig Leaf edition of another of his muckraking novels, Oil!, on the street. Oil! was the basis for the recent movie There Will Be Blood, starring Daniel Day Lewis
Meat Delivery
Meat Rendering