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Armour elevator


Title	Armour elevator
Description	Caption: "The Armour grain elevator is the largest in the city, and belongs to the millionaire meat packer. The owner is noted for his great wheat operations on the Board of Trade. The vast quantities of the actual product in this immense elevator have often been able to turn the market in his favor. The elevator is located on Goose Island in the Chicago River. The combined capacity of the Chicago elevator warehouses is thirty-one million bushels."
Date	1906
Type	Photographs
Identifier	chicago00lhne_raw_0015.jp2
Source	http://www.archive.org/stream/chicago00lhne#page/12/mode/2up
Physical Location	University of Illinois at Chicago
Format	image/jp2
Subject Name	Armour Elevator (Chicago, Ill.)
Subject	Grain elevators
Coverage-Spatial	Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.)
Date of Content	1900-1909
Publisher	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois at Chicago
Rights	Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Sub-Collection	Buildings Industry Waterfronts
Collection	Picture Chicago
Book Title	Chicago
Author of the Book	L. H. Nelson Company
Link to the Full-Text	http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicago00lhne

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