Beef on Hooks

Beef on Hooks
A cooling room at the Swift and Company Packinghouse at 3237 West 65th Street. The company, founded in Chicago in 1855, opened a packinghouse in Cleveland in the 1890s. At its peak, it employed almost 1000 workers here. The packinghouse closed in 1961. This photograph was taken in 1929.

Image courtesy of Cleveland Public Library Photograph Collection.
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