Packingtown USA, 1905-1968

  • IdentificationMSPack68
  • TitlePackingtown USA MSPack68
  • PublisherSpecial Collections
  • LanguageEnglish
  • RepositorySpecial Collections
  • Physical Description2.0 Linear feet
  • Date1905-1968
  • AbstractThe collection contains lantern slides, glass plate negatives, and photographs of the stockyards, Packingtown, neighborhood scenes, strikers, strikebreakers, union members and police. The photographs were used in the film.
  • Origination
    • Adelman, William J. (William John), 1932-
    • Packingtown U.S.A.

Old Resource ID was Packingtown

The film Packingtown USA was produced for the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1969. The film documents the story of the Great Meat Strike of 1904 in Chicago. It shows the poor working conditions, slum living, poor schools and ethnic tension in Packingtown, known today as Back of the Yards, or Bridgeport. The film also tells the story of the efforts of the Meatcutters Union, the Teamsters and social workers such as Jane Addams and Mary McDowell to assist the people of the ghetto community.

The collection contains lantern slides, glass plate negatives, and photographs of the stockyards, Packingtown, neighborhood scenes, strikers, strikebreakers, union members and police. The photographs were used in the film.

Packingtown USA, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago

  • NamesPackingtown U.S.A.
  • Subject
    • Chicago Neighborhoods.
    • Packing-house workers.
    • Strikes and lockouts--Packing-house workers.
  • Geographic Coverage
    • Illinois--Chicago--Bridgeport.
    • Illinois--Chicago.