Description
This vintage postcard depicts the bustling Rosenbaum Bros. & Co. Swift & Company Elevated Station at Chicago’s Union Stock Yards, showcasing a rusty-red elevated train structure and brown cattle below. The scene is populated by figures in dark clothing, suggesting the era’s working-class population. This Hammon Publishing Co. postcard, mailed in March, dates from approximately the 1910s.
Front Text (cleaned):
Rosenbaum Bros. & Co. Swift & Company
Elevated Station, Union Stock Yards, Chicago
Back Text (cleaned):
292
V. O. Hammon Pub. Co., Minneapolis and Chicago
Hammon Publishing Co.
Post Card
Chicago
Mar.
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