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- Postcard, "Union Stock Yards, Live Stock Exchange, South Omaha, Nebraska," 1939 -
- 1939
- Collections - Artifact
Postcard, "Union Stock Yards, Live Stock Exchange, South Omaha, Nebraska," 1939
- Lithographed Book Illustration, Milward & Oldershaw's Pork Packing Plant on the Ohio River, Covington, Kentucky, 1851 -
- 1842
- Collections - Artifact
Lithographed Book Illustration, Milward & Oldershaw's Pork Packing Plant on the Ohio River, Covington, Kentucky, 1851
- Interior Farmers' Market, 1875 -
- 1875
- Collections - Artifact
Interior Farmers' Market, 1875
- J.A. Peters Sausage Delivery Wagon, 1908-1912 - One-horse delivery wagons were common on American streets from the latter 19th century into the 20th. Businesses of all kinds used these practical vehicles to transport goods to customers. While all delivery wagons shared the same basic layout, more refined versions featured wood panels instead of duck cloth around the cargo area, or wood panels with glass alongside the driver's seat.
- 1908-1912
- Collections - Artifact
J.A. Peters Sausage Delivery Wagon, 1908-1912
One-horse delivery wagons were common on American streets from the latter 19th century into the 20th. Businesses of all kinds used these practical vehicles to transport goods to customers. While all delivery wagons shared the same basic layout, more refined versions featured wood panels instead of duck cloth around the cargo area, or wood panels with glass alongside the driver's seat.
- Trade Card for Swift and Company, Packers, at the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- 1893
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Swift and Company, Packers, at the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- Lithograph, "Union Stock Yards," 1866 -
- 1866-1867
- Collections - Artifact
Lithograph, "Union Stock Yards," 1866
- Swift & Company's Meat Packing House, Chicago, Illinois, "Splitting Backbones and Final Inspection of Hogs," 1910-1915 - At this meat packing operation, a conveyor moved hog carcasses past meat cutters, who then removed various pieces of the animal. To keep Model T production up with demand, Ford engineers borrowed ideas from other industries. Sometime in 1913 they realized that the "disassembly line" principle employed in slaughterhouses could be adapted to building automobiles -- on a moving assembly line.
- 1910-1915
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Swift & Company's Meat Packing House, Chicago, Illinois, "Splitting Backbones and Final Inspection of Hogs," 1910-1915
At this meat packing operation, a conveyor moved hog carcasses past meat cutters, who then removed various pieces of the animal. To keep Model T production up with demand, Ford engineers borrowed ideas from other industries. Sometime in 1913 they realized that the "disassembly line" principle employed in slaughterhouses could be adapted to building automobiles -- on a moving assembly line.
- "To Invade the Packers' Town," August 21, 1935 -
- August 21, 1935
- Collections - Artifact
"To Invade the Packers' Town," August 21, 1935
- Advertising Poster, "Rohe & Bro." circa 1900 -
- circa 1900
- Collections - Artifact
Advertising Poster, "Rohe & Bro." circa 1900
- Advertising Poster for Nelson Morris & Company Meats, 1901 -
- 1901
- Collections - Artifact
Advertising Poster for Nelson Morris & Company Meats, 1901