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Glance at yesteryear: Hogs on 13th Street

Arthur Thomas
By Arthur Thomas
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This 1891 photo from the Walter K. Means Collection shows hogs being herded down 13th Street in Milwaukee to the John Layton packinghouse at what is now 400 N. Plankinton Ave. Before mechanized transportation, meatpackers would hire the sons of farmers to help drive hogs to the slaughterhouse. Milwaukee got its first slaughterhouse in the

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