Butchery Collection

Woman Butcher 1920S
A young British female butcher proudly displays her freshly slaughtered pigs, hanging from their hooks. Date: 1920s

Various butchery tools
Tools used in butchery, including a mallet, a chopper, an axe, and various knives and cleavers

From Pig to Pork 1897
The slaughter process from pig to pork at Armours Chicago plant

Chicago Stockyards 1
Butchers in the Chicago stockyards at work on beef carcases, exposed by Upton Sinclair in his 1905 novel The Jungle

Beef Carcasees
Butchers removing intestines from cattle carcasses, part of the Argentinian meat (beef) production process. Date: 1930s

Chicago Stockyards 9
Two-thirds of the 8 million pigs that enter the Chicago stockyards are destined for pork joints : the rest are used to make sausages. England is a major client

Chicago Stockyards 8
Sheep hang by their rear legs as they pass towards the attentions of the butchers at the Chicago stockyards

Butcher & Carcasses
A butcher cuts large meat carcasses in half

(Goat) Meat Stall - New Market, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal state, India. The two gentleman on the right are clearly Muslim and therefore practising Halal Butchery. Date: circa 1910s

Butchers Boy. Date: circa 1920s

ABBETOIR CARCASS
A dead animal carcass hanging in an abbetoir. Date: 1930s

FRENCH BUTCHER W / A BULL
A French butcher prepares to slaughter a bull while others look on. Date: circa 1760

Paris - The Kitchens of the Lycee Montaigne, a famous French public secondary school. It is located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, near the Jardin du Luxembourg, and was founded in the 1880s

Butchers in street, Dublin
Two butchers carry lamb carcasses on their shoulders down a market street in Dublin, Ireland Date: 1990

Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Butchery
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Butchery. Miniature. Fol. 77r

Female Butcher
A woman butcher gutting an animal carcass. Date: early 1930s

Alan Wilson Street, Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia
Alan (Allan) Wilson Street, Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Date: circa 1930

Egyptian Art. Baking, brewing and butchery scene. Tomb of Wa
Egyptian Art. Baking, brewing and butchery scene. From the tomb of Wadjet-hotep at Sedment. Wood. 7th-11th Dynasty. c. 2150-2050 B.C. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Late XIV century. Butchery
Tacuinum Sanitatis. Medieval Health Handbook, dated before 1400, based on observations of medical order detailing the most important aspects of food, beverages and clothing. Butchery. Miniature. Fol

Killing Cattle Argentina
Public slaughtering of cattle, Argentina. Date: circa 1840

Romans Slaughter a Pig
Romans slaughter a pig in a large pot over a fire. Date: ancient

Chicago Butchery
Slaughter underway at a Chicago pork butchery. Date: 1886

Slaughtering Beef 1895
Slaughtering cattle at Armour & Co. in Chicago, USA. Date: 1895

A bell founder, 16th century Germany
The interior of a 16th century German bell foundry

Kosher Slaughter 1858
A kosher slaughter in progress. Date: 1858

Extraordinary array of game and fish with local butcher
A butcher proudly displaying his game and fish ready for Christmas. This photograph was taken in, Malmesbury, Wiltshire. England. Date: circa 1925

Iranian Butchers
Meat salesmen in Iran. Date: 1930s

Vietnam - Chinese Butcher
Vietnam - A Chinese Butcher Date: circa 1910s

Chicago Stock Yards
Union stock yards, Chicago, handle 14+ million cattle, hogs, sheep and horses in 1914. Upton Sinclairs The Jungle describes the dreadful conditions. Date: 1916

Butcher prepares meat
A 15th century butcher prepares cuts of meat, including ribs and hooves. Date: 15th century

Beef cuts, 1857
Town and country methods of cutting up an ox. The head and hooves ar shown, as well as the carcass. Date: 1857

Thessaloniki - Greece - Mobile Butcher Date: circa 1910s

Turkish Butcher skinning a sheep
A Turkish butcher skinning a sheep in Constantinople

Macedonian Butcher at work
A Macedonian butcher cuts up a sheep

Manchester Ship Canal - Butchered carcases awaiting distribu
A warehouse alongside the Manchester Ship Canal with rank upon rank of hanging beef caracasses awaiting transportation by train to London

Chicago Stockyards 2
Sheep arriving at the Chicago stockyards to be converted into legs of mutton and lamb chops

Chicago Stockyards 13
Any bits left over are chopped into pieces by the mighty machines of the Chicago stockyards, for use in sausages, corned beef, Spam and so forth

Chicago Stockyards 12
Carcases of meat hang from hooks in the huge refrigerated rooms of the Chicago Stockyards

Chicago Stockyards 10
At the Chicago stockyards, three or four strokes of the butchers knife suffice to cut a sheep into pieces

Chicago Stockyards 5

Chicago Stockyards 4
Bird s-eye view of the Chicago stockyards, where 25, 000 people are employed to butcher the animals

Chicago Stockyards 15
Every year, between 3 and 4 million cows enter the Chicago stockyards, ending up as carcases in refrigerated rooms before being despatched to their destinations

Chicago Stockyards 3
Pigs arriving at the Chicago stockyards to be converted into pork chops and sausages

Chicago Stockyards 14
At the Chicago stockyards, meat is used to make sausages, hamburgers, frankfurters and so on

Chicago Stockyards 6
At the Chicago stockyards, cattle are driven through a narrow passage where each in turn is fatally stunned by a butcher, their first stage in their final journey

Chicago Stockyards 11
Joints of meat are stacked in huge refrigerated rooms at the Chicago Stockyards

Chicago Stockyards 7
After being fatally stunned, the cattle at the Chicago stockyards are chopped into pieces and all their usable parts separated

Kind-Hearted Butcher
I m a kind-hearted fellow, wouldn t hurt a fly!, claims a butcher who has just slit the throat of a lamb

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