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Title: America's Historic Stockyards: Livestock Hotels
Description: This book looks at the history of U.S. stockyards. Kansas City is included in chapter 8. The text is well-documented with footnotes, a bibliography, glossary, and index.
Date: 2005
Object Type: Book

Title: Swift and Company
Description: Photograph of Major and Captain, prize-winning team of horses in the class for ''best pair to heavy delivery wagon.'' Owned by Swift and Company. ''Swift and Company's outfits are known throughout the country for their general excellence and make-up, and the invariable color of their horses, which is gray.''
Date: 1896-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Dr. Ralph Bunche Praises UPWE-CIO; 'Equal Rights' Booklet Is Published
Description: News article about a public congratulation of an anti-discriminatory policy of "the United Packinghouse Workers of America, CIO" (or UPWA-CIO) labor union by Ralph Bunche, "famed United Nations mediator and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize." The UPWA-CIO union at the time of the compliment by Bunche was "organizing Kansas City Swift workers into its union." A booklet titled "Action Against Jim Crow" was also published by the union to accompany the policy, and it was distributed to Kansas City Swift workers.
Date: 1952-11-01
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: West Bottoms
Description: Aerial view of West Bottoms near stockyards and Swift and Company packing plant.
Date: 1927
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Area of the Stockyards and Kaw River
Description: Area of the Stockyards and the Kaw River between 23rd St. Viaduct and Central Ave, showing buildings including Swift and Co., no date.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Swift and Company Exhibit
Description: View of front of Swift and Company street fair exhibit with two women standing on either side of a large hog statue. "Handwritten on front "Kansas City Street Fair exhibit 1899."
Date: 1899
Object Type: Photograph

Title: West Bottoms
Description: Distant view of Morris and Company and Swift and Company plants, located in Armourdale, Kansas.
Date: 1915
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Swift and Company
Description: Advertising card for Swift and Company showing a baby's smiling face. Front of card says: "Swift's Beef Extract." Front lower left corner has number 82. Back of card has an image of a jar of Swift's Beef Extract and advertising copy about it. Bottom of card says: "Swift and Company / Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis, St. Joseph, St. Paul." No street address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Packing Houses in West Bottoms
Description: Aerial view looking east across the Kansas River near west end of the Kansas Avenue Bridge; shows Cudahy Packing Company, Swift and Company, and the Kansas City Stockyards.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Swift and Company
Description: Advertising card for Swift and Company showing a classically dressed woman in sandals, a diaphanous gown, and a fur cape. She has long blonde hair and is holding holly above her head. Edges of card are embossed. Card has some damage. Back of card says: "Wool Soap for Toilet and Bath. There are many people who suppose that, because of its name, Wool Soap is intended for washing woolens only. This is a misconception which Swift and Company are especially desirous of rectifying. Wool Soap is pre-eminently a toilet and bath soap .."." We are large producers of prime tallow, and none but our most carefully selected stock enters into the manufacture of Wool Soap .."." Swift and Company Packing Plants at Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis, St. Joseph, St. Paul. Over Two Hundred and Fifty Branch Houses in the United States." Bottom of card says: "American Lithographic Co., N.Y.." No street address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Swift & Company
Description: Advertising card for Swift & Company showing a classically dressed woman in sandals, a diaphanous gown, and a fur cape. She has long blonde hair and is holding holly above her head. Edges of card are embossed. Card has some damage. Back of card says: "Wool Soap for Toilet and Bath. There are many people who suppose that, because of its name, Wool Soap is intended for washing woolens only. This is a misconception which Swift & Company are especially desirous of rectifying. Wool Soap is pre-eminently a toilet and bath soap .."." We are large producers of prime tallow, and none but our most carefully selected stock enters into the manufacture of Wool Soap .."." Swift & Company Packing Plants at Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis, St. Joseph, St. Paul. Over Two Hundred and Fifty Branch Houses in the United States." Bottom of card says: "American Lithographic Co., N.Y.." No street address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Swift and Company
Description: Advertising card for Swift and Company showing a bird on a branch in front of a cottage by a river in the snow. Front lower left corner has number B 416. Back of card has a poem and advertising copy about "Cotosuet...a healthful shortening...made of America's olive oil, which is Cotton Seed Oil" with "one part in five of prime beef suet...added until Cotosuet has the consistency of lard." Address given on back of card: Kansas City, Mo. No street address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Livestock Exchange Building Blueprint
Description: Blueprints of the first floor plan for the Livestock Exchange Building in the Kansas City Stockyards (part of a set of blueprints).
Date: 1909-12-30
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Swift and Company
Description: Advertising card for Swift and Company showing a woman holding a tray with a bowl of soup on it. Front of card says: "Swift's Pure Beef Extract." Front lower left corner says: "Copyright 1898, by Swift & Co.." Lower right corner says: "G. H. Buek & Co. N. Y. Lith." Back of card has advertising copy about beef extract. Bottom of card says "Swift and Company / Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis, St. Joseph, St. Paul." No street address is given.
Date: 1898
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Plan of the Kansas City Stockyards
Description: Map showing the plan of the Kansas City Stockyards from Osage Ave. west of the Kansas River to Central Ave. east of the Kansas River, 1899.
Date: 1899
Object Type: Map

Title: Plan of the Kansas City Stockyards and Vicinity
Description: Plan of the Kansas City Stockyards and Vicinity along the Kansas River from the 5th street bridge to the mouth of the Kansas River, October 1905.
Date: 1905-10
Object Type: Map

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