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Wilson Bros. & Co. Abattoir

    Wilson Bros. & Co.’s exquisitely designed abattoir (slaughterhouse); located on the west bank of the Schuylkill; built ca. 1877 by the Pennsylvania Railroad and operated by the Philadelphia Stock-Yard Co.

    1885
    Copyright
    High resolution image courtesy Philadelphia Athenaeum, via author’s Athenaeum membership 2018-19
    Attribution/Credit

    Wilson Bros. and Co., Catalogue of Works Executed (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1885), 55–56