Meat Packing at the Pittsburgh Joint Stock Yards

1937-10

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Meat Packing at the Pittsburgh Joint Stock Yards
  • Title
  • Meat Packing at the Pittsburgh Joint Stock Yards
  • Identifier
  • MSP80.B002.F07.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP80.B002.F07.I02
  • Description
  • The first stockyards were built on Herr’s Island by Pittsburgh tanner James Callery in 1885. Between 1903 and the 1950s the island, located in the Allegheny River near Pittsburgh, was the America's tenth largest livestock terminal and the second largest east of the Mississippi in terms of the volume of cattle, pigs, and sheep processed. Two of the island’s principal tenants, the Pittsburgh Joint Stock Yards and the Pittsburgh Provision Company, not only held animals bound for Pittsburgh slaughterhouses but also put on livestock shows and auctions on the island. The stockyards closed in the summer of 1965 and were replaced by homes, tennis courts, office buildings, and rowing clubs on the renamed Washington’s Landing Development.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Pittsburgh Joint Stock Yards (Pa.)
    Stockyards--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Herr's Island (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Meats--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Trimble Company Photographs, 1924-1951, MSP 80, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Trimble Company Records
  • Rights Information
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  • Rights Holder
  • Senator John Heinz History Center