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

Title: The Armour Packing Company
Description: Large illustration and description of the packing business's facilities and operations.
Date: 1899-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Souvenir of Kansas City and Her Fire Department
Description: Thorough description of the factory and grounds and operations at the packing plant, lying on both Missouri and Kansas land in the West Bottoms.
Date: 1893
Object Type: Book