Title

Armour Company's pig slaughterhouse, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1895. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Armour Company's pig slaughterhouse, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1892. One of the earliest production lines. Pigs were killed at the top of the building, then were processed before emerging at the bottom as finished carcasses.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1895

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B64_363

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

30,0Mb (4,9Mb) / 13,5in x 8,6in / 4064 x 2579 (300dpi)

Keywords

animal building buildings food technology industry country law pig crime death factory innovation meat Chicago Illinois location production line century murder concept killing pork slaughterhouse hog B&W slaughter carcass food industry MONOCHROME United States of America United States 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century American America USA Oxford Science Archive murdering slaughtering TGN Unknown