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Stock yards and tower


Title	Stock yards and tower
Description	Caption: "All visitors to Chicago are sure to include a trip to the celebrated stock yards during their sojourn in the city. Thousands of head of cattle are slaughtered here daily. The cattle are housed in hundreds of pens covering three hundred and twenty acres. The problem of supplying this immense area with water was solved by the building of a great tower, from which it is distributed among the pens."
Date	1906
Type	Photographs
Identifier	chicago00lhne_raw_0026.jp2
Source	http://www.archive.org/stream/chicago00lhne#page/24/mode/2up
Physical Location	University of Illinois at Chicago
Format	image/jp2
Subject	Stockyards Meat industry
Coverage-Spatial	New City (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	Industry Buildings
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