Stock Yards Collection

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

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Cattle awaiting slaughter in the Union Stock Yards, Chicago - note the boards for Armour and Swift

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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

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

Boy who sells papers around the stockyards, South Omaha, Nebraska. Date 1938 Nov

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

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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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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