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Scale, a Slaughterhouse View: Industry, Corporeality, and Being in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
Jason Weems
Description: Scale
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In June 1864, as the war to reunite the states bloodied the nation, the Chicago Pork Packers Association proposed a different union: that of the city’s various livestock exchanges ...
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Jason Weems
PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art
Copyright© 2016, Terra Foundation for American Art
Related print edition pages: pp.106-143
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00194.004
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19949
Chapter subject tags:Meat industry and tradeSlaughtering and slaughter-housesChicago (Ill.)--History--1875-

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Scale, a Slaughterhouse View: Industry, Corporeality, and Being in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago