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Meat industry and trade

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

A Chester White [Pig], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1589
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Chester White pig standing in a pig pen in the early/mid 20th century. The text beneath the image notes that' an extension in meat production in Illinois would materially increase the cash output from her farmsÂ….'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

A Packing-House in Holland, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1546
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Photograph of a packing-house in Holland showing pigs in a yard in front of the building with a man drawing a cart behind him while other men and a boy watch the pigs in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

American Gravitation System for Bacon Curing, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1553
Scope and Contents

Illustration of the American gravitation system for bacon curing in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Bacon Factory Products, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1556
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Photograph of the interior of a shop selling various bacon factory products, i.e. cuts of meat, sausages and bacon in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Co-operative Packing House at Frederickssund, Denmark, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1545
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the Co-operative Packing House at Frederickssund, Denmark in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Frozen Meat Hold [on a ship], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1231
Scope and Contents

Illustration of a cross-section of a ship showing the frozen meat hold's various levels by temperature. At the top is a refrigerating machine, ship's provisions, drinking water cooler; the next level down holds chilled beef and the lowest level holds frozen mutton.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Frozen Meat Trade, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2048
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Table of formulations made by W. Weddel & Co. on the frozen meat trade comparing the years 1888 and 1908.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Grand Avenue, Smithfield Market, London, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1825
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Grand Avenue, the main route through the centre of Smithfield Market in London in [1908?].

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Humane Killing Does Not Injure the Meat, 1924

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/5/2/5
Scope and Contents

Issued by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for the Humane Slaughtering of Animals for Food, is this pamphlet, "Humane Killing Does Not Injure the Meat, experiment and experience." The text was written by R.O.P. Paddison and includes testimonials about the use of humane killer pistols.

Dates: 1924