The Jungle
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The Jungle is a novel by American author and journalist Upton Sinclair. In 1904, Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information in the meat packing district of the Union Stock Yards in Chicago for t
First edition
A panorama of the beef industry in 1900 by a Chicago-based photographer
Men walking on wooden rails between cattle pens in the Chicago stockyard, 1909
Chicago meat inspectors in early 1906
Union Stock Yards
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The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was formed by a group of railroad companies that acqui
The Jungle
…novel by American author and journalist Upton Sinclair. In 1904, Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information in the meat packing district of the Union Stock Yards in Chicago for the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason, which published his novel in serial form in 1905. In 1906, the novel was published in book…
The Union Stock Yards in 1947
The Union Stock Yards in 1878
1905 International Live Stock Exposition catalogue
Birdseye view, 1890