Hygrade meat plant and surrounding streets
- Title:
- Hygrade meat plant and surrounding streets
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Labor and Work
Landscape and the Environment - Creator:
- Anderson, Donald H.
- Creation Date:
- 1960
- ID Number:
- 5003pb56f174
- Collection Number:
- 5003 P
- File Name:
- 5003pb56f174.jpg
- Work Type:
- black-and-white photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- Chicago River and Indiana Railroad Company
Industries (organizations)
Locomotives
Railroad cars
Railroad crossings
Railroads--Freight
Railroads--Employees
Railroads--Signaling - Measurement:
- 16 x 20 (inches, height x width)
- Description:
- Looking down a one-way city street from a scrubby hillock at the side of the road toward the Hygrade meat plant. At-grade railroad tracks are in the mid-frame, crossing the street, and a railroad car is on them headed toward the plant, traffic is waiting for it to pass. In the foreground is an Oldsmobile parked on the hillock, and a person waiting on the sidewalk. The factory is an approx. 5 story brick building with a wooden addition and chutes, a small depot yard, and a tall thin smokestack.
CRI Unit #9811. Shows an overall view of the Hygrade Plant and the surrounding streets. An automobile in the foreground is parked close to the tracks. There is also a heavy volume of traffic on the street. The traffic shown in the picture can only be seen by the fireman. Notice also the congestion around the tracks shown over to the right where the jeep is working right on the tracks. Also notice how the signals are being given on the fireman's side. It is impossible to give signals on the engineer's side due to the curvature of the track. There is no protection at this crossing other than the cross-arm sign. - Notes:
- One of 1,648 gelatin silver prints documenting the the facilities and equipment of 48 railroad carriers across the United States. The photographs were taken by more than 30 railroad employees on behalf of their labor organizations, to support members' testimony before the U.S. President's Railroad Commission regarding the necessity of the fireman position.
- Cite As:
- U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs. 5003 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
- Repository:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University
- Archival Collection:
- U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs
- Box:
- 56
- Folder:
- 174
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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