Image:Union stock yards chicago 1870s loc.jpg

From LOC: TITLE: The Great Union Stock Yards of Chicago

CALL NUMBER: PGA - Rascher--Great Union Stock ... (D size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-1625 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZC2-3647 (color film copy slide)

SUMMARY: Bird's-eye view, with identification key listing the names of 37 commercial pack houses, fertilizer factories, slaughterhouses, and other businesses shown in the print.

MEDIUM: 1 print : lithograph, color.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: Chicago : Published by Walsh & Co., c1878.

CREATOR:

Rascher, Charles.

NOTES:

103163 U.S. Copyright Office

Caption below title: Packing houses in the distance. Covered pens for hogs and sheep; open pens for cattle. Area of yards, 75 acres; 50 miles railroad tracks. Daily capacity: 25,000 head cattle, 160,000 hogs, 10,000 sheep, and 1,000 horses.

SUBJECTS:

Stockyards--Illinois--Chicago--1870-1880.

FORMAT:

Bird's-eye view prints 1870-1880. Lithographs Color 1870-1880.

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID: (color film copy transparency) cph 3b53127 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b53127 (color film copy slide) cph 3b51460 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b51460

CARD #: 90712275

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