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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: Kansas City--An Illustrated Review of Its Progress and Importance
Description: Description of the meat packing business at the Stockyards with a "capacity" of "five hundred cattle and seven thousand hogs per diem."
Date: 1886-05
Object Type: Book

Title: The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
Description: Photographic portrait of S. B. Armour and description of the meat packing company of "Plankinton & Armours," with history starting in 1870. Description also of Simeon Armour (1828-1899) and John Plankinton, its founding owners.
Date: 1878
Object Type: Book

Title: Hughes' Kansas City Views
Description: Photo of a "bird's eye view of the Kansas City Stock Yards, looking north," from 1874, including in the background the packing plant.
Date: 1896
Object Type: Book

Title: Meat Processing Plant is Shutting Down
Description: Armour Eckrich Branded Meats, a unit of John Morrell & Co., a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods Inc. of Smithfield, VA, will close its facility August 31, 2007. About 280 workers will lose their jobs. Smithfield Foods acquired the Kansas City, Kansas, plant in October when it bought ConAgra Foods Inc.'s refrigerated meats unit for $571 million in cash.
Date: 2007-02-02
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: West Bottoms after 1951 Flood
Description: View of West Bottoms in the aftermath of the 1951 Flood; shows part of Armour Company facilities, an overturned boxcar, several damaged automobiles, and much mud.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Elevated Railway Tracks
Description: View from the ground of the elevated railway tracks at the Armour Packing Company; located in the West Bottoms.
Date: 1888
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flood Scene
Description: Unidentified building in West Bottoms; also shows Armour Meat Packing Company.
Date: 1903
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1, 1909-1938, Page p013
Description: A portion of Kansas City from W. 8th Street south to W. 9th Street and from N. State Line east to Wyoming, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1909/1938
Object Type: Map

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1A, 1939-1949, Page p183
Description: A portion of Kansas City from Market Street south to W. 9th Street and from the state line east to Mulberry, showing buildings, railroads and streets. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1939/1949
Object Type: Map

Title: Armour Packing Company
Description: Postcard of the Kansas City Convention Hall and the Armour Packing Company.
Date: 1898~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1, 1895-1907, Page p015
Description: Northwestern edge of early Kansas City along the Kansas line in the West Bottoms from W. 8th Street south to St. Louis Avenue and from the state line east to Wyoming Street, showing buildings, streets, railroad lines, and additions. Large numbers on edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1895/1907
Object Type: Map

Title: Plankinton and Armour Packing House
Description: Distant view of Plankinton and Armour packing house from atop a train car. Noted with photograph as our first packing ho[use].
Date: 1875~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1A, 1939-1957, Page p183
Description: A portion of Kansas City from Market Street south to W. 9th Street and from the state line east to Mulberry, showing buildings, railroads, and streets. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1939/1957
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas vs. Missouri
Description: Football shaped program for the 1896 Thanksgiving Day football game played by the Kansas University against the Missouri University at Kansas City's Exposition Park, once located north of 15th Street between Montgall and Kansas (Chestnut) avenues.
Date: 1896-11-26
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: The Armour Trophy for the Best Short Horn Bull at the Kansas City Cattle Show
Description: Photo of the "Armour Trophy for the Best Short Horn Bull at the Kansas City Cattle Show." On the surface of the trophy is a depiction of the "Plant of Armour Packing Co., Kansas City, U.S.A.," with the phrase "the destiny of good cattle" at the top.
Date: 1901-11-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Armour Packing Company
Description: Postcard of the Armour Packing Company Building that was once in the West Bottoms.
Date: 1904~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: World's Largest Office Building
Description: This article claims that the Armour Packing Company office building located at Central Avenue and Joy Street will be the largest of its kind in the world used by a single firm or corporation. The building was designed by William W. Rose. The building's features are detailed in the article and a photograph is included. An added feature is a column called "Armour Office Building Notes" which gives information on the structure and materials and where they were bought.
Date: 1901-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Meatpacking in Kansas City, Kansas
Description: The index of this book has several references to Kansas City, Kansas, about various topics about the meatpacking industry and stockyards. The Armour Company, as well as many other companies associated with the industry, are also mentioned.
Date: 2007
Object Type: Book Section

Title: The North Kansas City Urban District
Description: Abstract of a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy for the University of Missouri. It describes the North Kansas City District, including Harlem, Missouri. There is a discussion of the various physical and cultural landscape forms of the district in an urban planning context, with maps and photos, including information about the Armour Packing Company.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Thesis/Dissertation

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