Turn of the Century Meatpacking Before Mechanization: Butchers, Hanging Rooms, and Refrigerated Food Distribution, Photo Archive 1910s to 1940s
Industrial butcher shop and slaughterhouse photo archive depicting meatpacking labor during the rapid expansion of refrigerated food distribution in the early twentieth century, when urban slaughterhouses and cold storage facilities transformed American food consumption. After the introduction of refrigerated rail transport in the late nineteenth century, cities such as Philadelphia.....
