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Mathiason, Jerry
Title
FERTILIZER PLANT AND STORAGE BUILDINGS, LOOKING EAST FROM BUILDING 149; LIVESTOCK HOLDING BUILDINGS (HOG AND SHEEP HOTELS) OCCUPIED OPEN AREA IN FOREGROUND - Rath Packing Company, Sycamore Street between Elm and Eighteenth Streets, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, IA
Depicted place Iowa; Black Hawk County; Waterloo
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER IOWA,7-WATLO,4-9
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Between 1891 and 1985, the Rath Packing Company grew from a small local business into the ninth largest meat packing company in the United States. By 1950, the Waterloo plant was the largest single-unit packing house in the world. The buildings in the complex were designed by Hans Peter Henschien of Chicago, the nation's foremost packinghouse architect during the first half of the twentieth century. The Rath plant exemplifies the vertical killing and processing technology that dominated the meat packing industry during this period.
  • Survey number: HAER IA-41
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ia0405.photos.319470p
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Object location42° 29′ 34.01″ N, 92° 20′ 34.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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