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Commercial Avenue Stock Yards Chicago Illinois Postcard 1905
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Pioneer · 1905

Commercial Avenue Stock Yards Chicago Illinois Postcard 1905

Chicago, Illinois1905PioneerGood

Hand-colored lithograph bird's-eye view of Commercial Avenue at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois, showing a large flock of white sheep being driven down the central avenue by mounted drovers, with cattle pens packed with livestock filling the right foreground. Red brick commercial buildings — including Clay, Robinson & Co. — line the left. The scene conveys the massive industrial scale of what was then the world's largest meat-processing complex. Published by V. O. Hammon Pub. Co., Chicago and Minneapolis, card no. 180.

  • Caption: "Commercial Avenue, Stock Yards, Chicago, Ill."
  • Card no.: No. 180
  • Publisher: V. O. Hammon Pub. Co., Chicago and Minneapolis
  • Postmark: Chicago, IL, Sep 25, 1905; Washington DC, Sep 26, 1905
  • Status: Posted
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PC-00592 · V. O. Hammon Pub. Co., Chicago and Minneapolis — No. 180
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