[Kansas City]: [Filleau, Emery A.]:

$7,500 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

KANSAS CITY. STOCK YARDS AND PACKING HOUSES. An unrecorded promotional broadside for the Kansas City Stock Yards printed around the turn of the 20th century. The piece was sponsored by Verner & Scroggin, Live Stock Commission Merchants, with offices in the Live Stock Exchange; their information is printed in a box just below the title. A central bird's-eye view of the stock yards is bordered on top and bottom by eight smaller vignettes of related companies, mostly meat processing and packing plants. These companies are Phoenix Packing Co., Alcutt Packing Co., George Fowler & Sons, Kansas City Horse & Mule Market, Jacob Dold Packing Co., Swift and Co., The Armour Packing Co., and Kingan & Co., Limited. The top left corner has a circular vignette of a pig; the top right corner the same for a steer. The bottom left corner notes the broadside was printed by the Union Bank Note Company. A small printed notice in the border below the bird's-eye view reads, "Drawn by E.A. Filleau, KC Mo." Another identifies the publisher, W.A. Barbot, who created a handful of maps and views which seem to mostly center around the Denver area, including an 1891 Denver souvenir album, a perspective map of Denver in 1892, and a Denver trade and labor periodical in the 1890s. His presence in Kansas City is likely testament to the growing power of the stock yards on locations farther west, such as Denver.The Kansas City stock yards were established in 1871, largely by investors from Boston, who were attem

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