Imaging Animal Industry

Download or read book Imaging Animal Industry written by Emily Kathryn Morgan and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imaging Animal Industry focuses on the visual culture of the American meat industry between 1890 and 1960. Drawing on archival collections across the American Midwest, this book relates a history of the meatpacking industry's use of images in the early to mid-twentieth century. In the process, it reveals the key role that images, particularly photographs, have played in assisting with the rise of industrial meat production.