Source: ICHi-52240. Title [Stockyards, Chicago(?)] On Christmas Day 1865, what became known as the Union Stockyards opened; it was the consolidation of several smaller stockyards in the city. [Stockyards, Chicago(?)] Date: 1890-1899. 1830: Thompson draws first plat map of Chicago 5. Map No. Classic art reinvented with a modern twist. 1904 July 7-Sept. 9. An Armour and Company building, a Swift and Company building, a bridge and smoke billowing from smokestacks are visible in the background. With the spreading service of railroads, several small stockyards were created in and around the City of Chicago. Chicago Stockyards in 1900 we still go to slaughter house in 'back of yards' to buy our fresh meat Chicago City Chicago Area Chicago Illinois Oklahoma City My Kind Of Town Ranch Life Old West The Ranch Best Cities Overhead general view of the Chicago Stockyards Undated Photograph circa 1900 … Chicago, IL 60607 United States. Union Stock Yards, Chicago Illustrated, September, 1866 Octave Chanute, was the Chief Engineer of the Chicago & Alton Railroad from 1863-1867.During this connection, Mr. Chanute submitted a competitive design for the Union Stock Yards of Chicago, and this having been selected in preference to a score of other designs, he was made Chief Engineer of the Yards, and supervised their construction. Reproduction of photograph, photographer unknown. Then there was the equally legendary smell, and the runoff. On Christmas day in 1865, the stockyards opened for business. Chicago, Union Stock Yard, 1900. Union stockyards from 'Views of Chicago and Vicinity.' Date: ca. Chicago 1900 became the central home of the American industry and small companies began merging with one another. Thus, Chicago's Big Three packers—Philip Armour, Gustavus Swift, and Nelson Morris—were in a position to influence livestock prices at one end of this complex industrial chain and the price of meat products at the other end. Date: 1890-1899. Chicago, this is the most awesome thing you will see today! From United States +C $3.94 shipping. Originally, the area was just wetlands until channels were dredged. Source: ICHi-13188. Click on the links below to access scans of some of the sheet maps of Chicago from the years between 1900 and the onset of World War I that are held at the University of Chicago Library's Map Collection. 1. It was populated by a series of native tribes who maintained villages in the forested areas near rivers. Omaha steps up. C $9.12 . Pre-Owned. Date: 1890-1899. The meat packers gathered their businesses next to the stockyards by the South Fork of the Chicago River. Description: Just coming from the stockyards, lunchroom in stockyards district; Chicago, IL. The Stockyards continued to enjoy prosperity and market domination into the first half of the twentieth century. By 1900 this dressed beef trade was as important as pork packing, and mechanical refrigeration increased the efficiency of both pork and beef operations. Materials in this collection highlight a portion of the Stockyards activities and business affairs from 1890 - 1970, with the bulk of the materials spanning 1930 - 1960. Bookmark /2004679598/ Bookmark:2004679598 Bookmark:2004679598. C $9.12. The Chicago Union Stock Yards fire occurred from December 22 to December 23, 1910 and resulted in the deaths of twenty-one Chicago Fire Department firemen. Chicago’s Stockyards. Officially opening on … Opened in 1865, Chicago's Union Stock Yard was the greatest livestock market the world had seen. Chicago History Museum. Union Stock Yards, Chicago Illustrated, September, 1866 Octave Chanute, was the Chief Engineer of the Chicago & Alton Railroad from 1863-1867.During this connection, Mr. Chanute submitted a competitive design for the Union Stock Yards of Chicago, and this having been selected in preference to a score of other designs, he was made Chief Engineer of the Yards, and supervised their construction. 1900. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. General view of the Great Union Stock Yards, looking north-west of the packing house, Chicago, Ill., U.S.A., still image, Stereographs, 1850 - 1930. Source: DN-0000936, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum. Chicago History Museum. Highly flammable chemicals used for meat production and spilled on Stockyard floors made conditions ripe for fires. The Chicago International Livestock show was first held in 1900 and ran through 1975. By 1940, a total of 896,000,000 animals had moved through the complex. Date: April 30, 1886. Though this blaze became infamous, fires at the Stockyards were not uncommon. Although for many years it was a beef, horse, swine and sheep show, Chicago did host some epic dairy cattle shows as well. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or "The Yards," was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. In 1883, a Wyoming cattle baron, Alexander Hamilton Swan, was coming back from a sales trip to the Chicago Stockyards when he stopped in Omaha for a break. Cattle, Chicago stockyards, c. 1900 Image ID FOT178704 Rights RM Rights Managed Image Details Image File Attributes 4.0 MB JPEG Image Dimensions 3056 x 3240 px Image Print Size (at 300 ppi) 259 x 274 mm 10.2 x 10.8 in Visual Size @300ppi 1832: Black Hawk War 6. Source: ICH-i15113. It has been more than 20 years since Chicago`s stockyards were closed, yet in the eyes of the nation, Chicago remains one of the great steak towns in … NEW SEARCH..... AMERICAN MEMORY HOMEPAGE. Size Approximately 8x12 inches. Unidentified group of men walking away from the Union Stock Yards Gate. The stockyards eventually sprawled from Pershing Avenue to 47th Street and Halstead Street to Ashland Avenue, and various meatpacking businesses quickly flanked the complex, including the industrial giants of Swift, Armour, Morris, and Hammond. Legal Context | 1812: Battle of Fort Dearborn 3. 1696: Mission of the Guardian Angel 3. UTA Libraries Digital Gallery. Date: 1890's. That fall, during a remarkable three-month span, more than 1.3 million cattle passed through the I Photo: Corbis Images By Robert K. Landers. The fire, which broke out at Warehouse 7 of the Nelson Morris Company at the Chicago Union Stock Yards on the 4300 block of South Loomis Street, was first reported on December 22 at 4:09 am. - Stockyards--Illinois--Chicago--1900-1910 Headings Gelatin silver prints--1900-1910. On this date in 1971, Chicago's Union Stock Yards closed. Size Approximately 8x12 inches. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired swampland and turned it to a centralized processing area. For two months in 1904, Sinclair wandered the Chicago stockyards – a place he would write of as "Packingtown." Tourists watched masses of animals move through kill floors, a sight hailed as a … That included hogs, cattle and sheep. In 1864, an association of nine railroad companies purchased a 320-acre plot of land on the Southwest side of Chicago to establish a consolidated facility. Source: ICHi-32961. As in many early strikes, the wives and children often joined with their striking fathers and husbands. It was claimed they processed everything on a pig except the squeal. Date: 1900. Description: 'We Don't have to pay higher wages we can get the labor we want' J Ogden ? The new tracks made some farmers want to live west of the Mississippi. On Christmas Day 1865, what became known as the Union Stockyards opened; it was the consolidation of several smaller stockyards in the city. Description: Workers at Horn Brothers Furniture Company, before the strike. He saw for himself the sloppy practices in the packing houses and the mind-numbing, 12-hour-a-day schedule. From The American Journal of Sociology , … Big sewer entering Bubble Creek Branch. Notes - Wittemann Collection. Image of a crowd, including women and children, gathered along a road with police and horse-drawn carriages during the 1904 Stockyards Strike in the New City community area of Chicago, Illinois. Source: ICHi-29983. Chicago stockyards ca. Whiskey Row, near Union Stockyards. Chicago Stockyards in 1880 Chicago Union Stockyards 1865-1900 In the 1860’s, railroad tracks were built in states west of the Mississippi River. Railroad yard at the rear of the Union Stock Yards. At the time, a young film student, Mark Mamalakis, went to the yards to capture the end of an era. Photography inspired by futurism, embracing dynamic energy of modern technology, movement, … pic 2 Description: Union stockyards from 'Views of Chicago and Vicinity;' Chicago, IL. 1900. General view of the Great Union Stock Yards, looking north-west of the packing house, Chicago, Ill., U.S.A., still image, Stereographs, 1850 - 1930. 1803: Fort Dearborn established 2. 3: The Rise of a Modern City, 1871-1893), Moran's Dictionary of Chicago and Its Vicinity, The Workers: an Experiment in Reality: The West. There are world records for nearly everything, including cattle processing. The stockyards wer owned by the Union Stock Yard & Transit Company and were located in the New City community. Bookmark /2004679598/ Bookmark:2004679598 Bookmark:2004679598. ICHi-15014. Photo : Corbis Images By Robert K. Landers. View of livestock pens and workers herding sheep at the Union Stock Yard Chicago IL ca1910. Date: 1905. Chicago History Museum. He mingled with the foreign-born "wage slaves" in their tenements and heard how they'd been mistreated and ripped off. Historical Context | The physical layout of the plant no longer fit innovations in slaughterhouse processing, especially the growth of the assembly line. Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933 Subject Index And in September 1918, Kansas City broke them all. NEW SEARCH..... AMERICAN MEMORY HOMEPAGE. Click on the links below to access scans of some of the sheet maps of Chicago from the years between 1900 and the onset of World War I that are held at the University of Chicago Library's Map Collection. Designed in collaboration with Jell Creative | Thank you to all of our contributors, Logo for University of Illinois at Chicago, http://library.uic.edu/home/about-us/contact-us, Union Stock Yard & Transit Company of Chicago. The meat packers gathered their businesses next to the stockyards by the South Fork of the Chicago River. Reproduction of photograph, photographer unknown. Union Stockyards gate with men standing to side. Source: ICHi-52216. Source: ICHi-21839. The massive meat market to the world first opened on Christmas Day 1865, operating for … Its position in the development and maintenance of the Chicago economy helped position the city as the center of the American meat industry. Armour Strikes; Chicago, IL. By the 1890s, the railroad money behind the Union Stockyards was Vanderbilt money. Just a few years later in 1852 the opening of the Michigan Central and Michigan Southern Railroads opened up eastern markets to the Chicago slaughterhouses. Source: DN-0000163, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum. Reproduction of photograph, photographer unknown. Additionally, refrigerated trucks allowed a decentralized location for plants to be tenable, as they were no longer dependent upon proximity to the railroads. Before construction of the various private stockyards, tavern owners provided pastures and care for cattle herds waiting to be sold. 1818: State of Illinois admitted into the Union 4. Image of an unidentified group of men walking away from the Union Stock Yards Gate at 850 West Exchange Avenue in the New City community area of Chicago, Illinois. Source: ICHi-52217. Exchange Street, 200 feet west of the main entrance to the Union Stockyards. 1900] Notes: Photo by Ray Stannard Baker. Chicago History Museum. Chicago History Museum. Date: November 20, 1886. By the 1890s, the railroad money behind the Union Stockyards was Vanderbilt's money. Collection primarily includes minutes, correspondence, reports, manuals and literature, photographs and films. About This Site, ©2012 Leigh Bienen, Northwestern University School of Law, 1890 Census: Report On Vital & Social Statistics in the U.S, A History of Chicago (Vol. The fire, which broke out at Warehouse 7 of the Nelson Morris Company at the Chicago Union Stock Yards on the 4300 block of South Loomis Street, was first reported on December 22 at 4:09 am. Date: ca. Members of the Chicago Stockyards Kilty Band march and perform at the St Patrick's Day Parade in Chicago on Saturday March 16 2019. Title: [Cattle pen in Chicago Stockyards, ca. Created / Published [between 1900 and 1950] Subject Headings From Chicago Commons collections. Chicago History Museum. Reproduction of photomechanical print, printer unknown. It has been more than 20 years since Chicago`s stockyards were closed, yet in the eyes of the nation, Chicago remains one of the great steak towns in … Chicago History Museum. The stockyards played a fundamental role in not only the financial life of the city, but also in the social fabric and popular imaginations of Chicagoans, giving inspiration to Carl Sandburg's affectionate nickname for the city - Hog Butcher to the World. By 1900, the stockyard stretched over 475-acres, contained 50 miles of paved road and 130 miles of railroad tracks around their perimiter. By 1900, the stockyards had grown to 475 acres and employed over 1000 people. Description: Big sewer entering Bubble Creek Branch; Chicago, IL. "The Jungle" exposed the horrors of the meatpacking industry. Though this blaze became infamous, fires at the Stockyards were not uncommon. J Ogden Armour Strikes, 'We Don't have to pay higher wages we can get the labor we want.' Crowd, including women and children, gathered along a road with police and horse-drawn carriages during the 1904 Stockyards Strike. Opened in 1865, Chicago's Union Stock Yard was the greatest livestock market the world had seen. The Union Stockyards, famously documented in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, … The Jungle is a 1906 novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). The neighborhoods where the immigrants came â usually to stay first with an earlier arriving friend or relative â were named after the countries they came from, or called âThe Back of the Yards.â. The Great Union Stock Yards of Chicago incorporated space for over 200,000 live animals, to be processed through slaughter houses, meat processing, and for derivative products. The Illinois and Michigan canal was completed in 1848 and connected the Illinois River, the Chicago River, and Lake Michigan. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. Highly flammable chemicals used for meat production and spilled on Stockyard floors made conditions ripe for fires. Date: October 31, 1868. CLIP IS AVAILABLE ON A VARIETY OF FORMATS HD/SD PLEASE EMAIL FOR INFO. Chicago Stockyards collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago, © Copyright 2020, Chicago Collections Consortium & Participating Member Institutions, This site was made possible by support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Description: Entrance to stockyards; Chicago, IL. The Union Stockyard and Transit Company, known commonly as The Chicago Stockyards, was a major industrial hub in Chicago for more than a century. The 450-acre site contained thousands of wooden animal pens, barns, haylofts, slaughterhouses, packing plants, and warehouses owned and operated by more than 100 separate meatpacking businesses. Stereographs--1900-1910. Chicago History Museum. By 1900, the stockyards had grown to 475 acres and employed over 1000 people. The stockyards closed 40 years ago, in 1971. A fierce rival of Chicago's Union Stock Yards, the Omaha Union Stockyards were third in the United States for production by 1890. Chicago Stockyards in 1880 Chicago Union Stockyards 1865-1900 In the 1860’s, railroad tracks were built in states west of the Mississippi River. View of livestock pens and workers herding sheep at the Union Stock Yard Chicago IL ca1910. The Bulls Head Stock Yards were located at Madison Street and Ogden Avenue. Chicago was emerging as America's most important industrial city nd the The stockyards were at the center of the city's economy. Buy It Now +C $16.07 shipping. The Stockyards continued to enjoy prosperity and market domination into the first half of the twentieth century. Source: DN-0050344, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum. Shortly after this time, changes in technology and urban industries began to shake the market hold and competitiveness of the Stockyards. The lunch club for the various packing-house officials, at the stockyards, has a name bearing perhaps some satirical relation to that of the other club.. The stockyards became themselves the symbol of the engine of economic growth and its excesses. Reproduction of engraving, engraver unknown. The history of the stockyards is the subject of Dominic Pacyga's "Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World it Made." The Great Union Stock Yards and Packing Houses, Chicago, Ill., George W. Griffith (American, active Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1900s), 1905, Gelatin silver print, Reimagined by Gibon, design of warm cheerful glowing of brightness and light rays radiance. Top Rated Seller Top Rated Seller. 1900] Date Created/Published: [ca. Chicago History Museum. The slaughterhouses got their livestock from Chicago's Union Stockyards: 475 acres of cattle, hogs and other animals shipped here from all over the country. Just coming from the stockyards, lunchroom in stockyards district. C $6.56. Florence Kelley | The meat packing companies were owned by families whose names and battles with labor would be associated with the city for generations. Reproduction of photomechanical print, printer unknown. Chicago’s Stockyards. Reproduction of photographic print, photographer unknown. Chicago/Turabian Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. In 1872 with the development of refrigerated train cars, the national markets fully opened up to the Chicago meat industry and ensured its continued growth. Before 1784: DuSable first arrives in Chicago 4. Description: Engraving Stockyards 1868 from Harper's Weekly; Chicago, IL. Tens of thousands of skilled and unskilled immigrants from rural and small town America, from Europe, Germany, Russia, and Italy came to work in the stockyards. The problem was, that they still had not penetrated the European market. Source: ICHi-52112. Description: Exchange Street, 200 feet west of the main entrance to the Union Stockyards; Chicago IL. As Chicago became a railroad hub, the … Chronicled in historical accounts, photographs, novels, and newspapers, the stockyards were the icon and essence of 1890âs Chicago â Hog butcher for the world The hub of the new transnational railroad system, the stockyards were where animals â cattle, sheep, pigs â were brought to wait to be slaughtered in of the great meat processing plants, named after the families whose fortunes they made. 1902. The Chicago Union Stock Yards fire occurred from December 22 to December 23, 1910 and resulted in the deaths of twenty-one Chicago Fire Department firemen.. Until September 11, 2001, it was the deadliest building collapse in American history, in terms of firefighter fatalities, although the Texas City Disaster of 1947 killed more firefighters overall. Union fights and strikes began and ended there. The Great Union Stock Yards and Packing Houses, Chicago, Ill., George W. Griffith (American, active Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1900s), 1905, Gelatin silver print, Reimagined by Gibon, design of warm cheerful glowing of brightness and light rays radiance. The Chicago Union Stock Yards fire occurred from December 22 to December 23, 1910 and resulted in the deaths of twenty-one Chicago Fire Department firemen. Source: ICHi-20069. Date: 1893. The Union Stock Yards in Chicago in 1878; Union Stock Yards Aerial 1900 Before construction of the various private stockyards, tavern owners provided pastures and care for cattle herds waiting to be sold. The maps portray a city where much that was true of Chicago in the 1890s remained the case. Pre-Owned. Home | Chicago History Museum. 1865: Chicago Union Stockyards completed 1868: Field and Leiter open a store (later Marshall Fields) at State Street and Washington Avenue 1868: Lincoln Park Zoological Gardens founded In 1921, the Stockyards employed 40,000 people, and occupied more than a square mile of Chicago's South Side from 39th to 47th and from Halsted to Ashland. Chicago, Union Stock Yard, 1900. Chicago History Museum. Chicago, 1900-1914. Union stockyards from 'Views of Chicago and Vicinity.' Top Rated Seller Top Rated Seller. Caption card tracings: Stock-yards; Shelf. Date: ca. Chicago, 1900-1914. Originally, the area was just wetlands until channels were dredged. 1900] Notes: Photo by Ray Stannard Baker. Description: The Pork Packers Plant strike at Chicago, IL. Engraving Stockyards 1868 from Harper's Weekly. The Union Stockyard and Transit Company, known commonly as The Chicago Stockyards, was a major industrial hub in Chicago for more than a century. Overhead general view of the Chicago Stockyards Undated Photograph circa 1900 BPA 2. The Union Stockyards of Omaha, Nebraska were founded in 1883 in South Omaha by the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha. One of the reasons for the success is that, by 1900, "chilled beef" was being sold for 30 percent less than beef from live cattle. Description: Union Stockyards gate with men standing to side; Chicago, IL. Reproduction of photograph, photographer unknown. Canning room, stockyards. or Best Offer. The farmers could use the railroad to ship their … In 1900 the Chicago packinghouses employed 25,000 of the country's 68,000 packinghouse employees. The maps portray a city where much that was true of Chicago in the 1890s remained the case. When it came to butchering hogs nothing was wasted. 1795: Treaty of Greenville 1. 6 Stock Yard & Hyde Park Districts of Chicago Showing Distribution of Public Institutions and of Criminality in A.D. 1900 Charles J. Bushnell. pic 1 Description: Union stockyards from 'Views of Chicago and Vicinity;' Chicago, IL. For generations of workers and owners – and the thousands of people providing goods and services supported by them â the stockyards were the physical and cultural heart of Chicago. The novel portrays the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired swampland and turned it into a centralized processing area. The Special Collections and Preservation Division at HWLC showcases rare and unique materials focusing on Chicago. With the spreading service of railroads, several small stockyards were created in and around the city of Chicago. Reproduction of photograph; photographer unknown. Date: ca. Description: Canning room, stockyards; Chicago, IL. Description: Whiskey Row, near Union Stockyards; Chicago, IL. Buy It Now. In the years that followed, several small stockyards were scattered throughout the city. Chicago, Ill, Union Stock Yards. ... Sheep run, Chicago stock yards "A large flock of sheep being driven over the runs from the cars to the slaughter beds. Medium 1 photographic print. https://explore.chicagocollections.org/ead/uic/25/v893/, Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives, Daley Library, Room 3-330, 801 S. Morgan St. The new tracks made some farmers want to live west of the Mississippi. 1906. Date: 1928. The gate was built in 1879. The Chicago Union Stock Yards fire occurred from December 22 to December 23, 1910 and resulted in the deaths of twenty-one firemen. Reproduction of photographic print, photographer unknown. CHICAGO, Illinois, 1900-10s; Stockyards, Cattle. Date: n.d. Workers at Horn Brothers Furniture Company, before the strike. At the time, a young film student, Mark Mamalakis, went to the yards to capture the end of an era. In 1947 they were second to Chicago in the world. The Stockyards continued to enjoy prosperity and market domination into the first half of the twentieth century. 1673: Marquette and Joliet explore site of Chicago; Chicago's written history begins 2. Chronicled in historical accounts, photographs, novels, and newspapers, the stockyards were the icon and essence of 1890’s Chicago – Hog butcher for the world The hub of the new transnational railroad system, the stockyards were where animals – cattle, sheep, pigs – were brought to wait to be slaughtered in of the great meat processing plants, named after the families whose fortunes they made. The farmers could use the railroad to ship their crops and animals to markets in eastern cities. The Stockyards continued to decline for the next few decades, and eventually closed their doors in 1971. A group of Chicago meatpackers and railroad executives organized the consolidated market to take advantage of the confluence of transportation options newly available. The Union Stock Yard Gate is all that remains of the Union Stock Yards which closed in 1971 and is seen on Exchange Avenue in Chicago, Illinois,... Bird's Eye View of the Great Union Stock yards. Source: ICHi-16072. Source: ICHi-29982. The Chicago Union Stock Yards fire occurred from December 22 to December 23, 1910 and resulted in the deaths of twenty-one firemen. Chicago Stockyard Entrance Postcard 1911 Linen Posted. Amazing collection of the earliest motion pictures made in Chicago from 1896-1935. By the turn of the last century there were only five or six mammoth meatpacking companies, and they controlled the majority of meatpacking in America. ... Sheep run, Chicago stock yards "A large flock of sheep being driven over the runs from the cars to the slaughter beds. The show was held at the International Amphitheater adjacent to the Chicago Stockyards. The stockyards closed 40 years ago, in 1971. The Union Stockyard and Transit Company, known commonly as The Chicago Stockyards, was a major industrial hub in Chicago for more than a century. 1832, 1849-55, 1866-67: Cholera epidemics hit Chicago 1. Sinclair's primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its working conditions was to advance socialism in the United States. Caption card tracings: Stock-yards; Shelf. View of a railroad yard at the rear of the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, Illinois, showing various large storage buildings, railroad tracks and piles of lumber and building materials. Tourists watched masses of animals move through kill … This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. 1885. 1900] Date Created/Published: [ca. In 1910, Chicago’s Union Stockyards and Transit Company was one of the world’s largest centers of industry. Reproduction of photograph, creator - J. W. Taylor. Officially opening on … Reproduction of postcard, printer - V O Hammon Publishing Company. In 1848, a stockyard called the Bulls Head Market was opened to the public. In 1872 with the development of refrigerated train cars, the national markets fully opened up to the Chicago meat industry and ensured its continued growth. Pre-Owned. - No. Entrance to stockyards. Title: [Cattle pen in Chicago Stockyards, ca. By 1940, a total of 896,000,000 animals had moved through the complex. Archives | Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection The Vivian G. Harsh Collection at Woodson Regional Library is the largest African American history and literature collection in the Midwest. Chicago, 1900-1914. They were processing two million animals yearly by 1870 and in two decades the number rose to nine million. 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