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The French Emissary Studies Our Industrial Methods: The Stock Yards
This 1902 cartoon satirizes a foreign visitor’s reactions during a tour of the industrial slaughtering system at Chicago’s notorious stock yards. “This was a period when people were going to the stock yards and looking at it with wonder,” Samuelson says. “The idea of butchering animals by regimented, mechanical processes—that was looked on as very Chicago.” McCutcheon’s image of animals instantly turning into cans of food may look familiar. “It later became a very common joke in movies—the idea of putting an animal into a hopper and the finished product coming out,” Samuelson says.RELATED
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