Armour Packing Company

Description: 

Photographic print of a drawing of the Armour Packing Company, once located at the northeast corner of the intersection of Central Avenue and James Street in Kansas City, Kansas. This vantage point faces north and shows James Street (left) and Central Avenue (foreground). The statistics given with the print indicate the plant has a "daily killing capacity" of 12,000 hogs, 4,000 cattle, and 5,000 sheep. It also provides total shipments for the "last fiscal year": 632,575,000 lbs. of meat, 40,000,000 lbs of canned meat, and 75,000,000 lbs of lard.

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Date: 
1901
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Modern Location: 
11 North James Street
Kansas City, KS
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Collection Title, Call or Box Number: 
General Collection (P1), Armour Company, #4
Digital Object Identifier: 
10001251
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