Butchers At Work, Slaughter Houses, & Packing Houses

Butcher, 1840-50s

 

 

William Carlson, butcher, Minnesota, 1900s

 

 

Students in a butchering class, Minnesota, 1900

 

Chicago meat inspection Swift Co., 1906

 

Chicago - Meat Packing Industry - Swift & Co.'s Packing House, cutting up hogs, removing hams and shoulders, 1905

 

 

 

 

Cudahy Packing Co, Omaha, Nebraska, 1910

 

Slaughter House, 1873

 

Hog Wheel at Stock Yards, Chicago, 1919

Pork Packing in The 1800's

 

Pork Packing in Cincinnati, 1873

The Hog Trade of Cincinnati, published in Harper's Weekly, February, 1860

Chicago Meatpacking, 1878

Kaiapoi Freezing Works

 

 

Taken in 1917, the mutton killing board with the beef department on the left. The NC Sheepfarmers Freezing Company was formed in 1915 and the Works in Bowler Street opened in 1917, and closed in 1991.