Color postcard (14 x 9 cm.) with an exterior view of the Cudahy Packing Company's plant. The plant was located at 33rd and N Street in South Omaha. Visible here are the confinement area for cattle and smoke stacks rising from several buildings. Foreground of the postcard shows a green field.
This South Omaha meat packing company was established in 1887 as the Armour-Cudahy Packing Company. In 1890, it evolved into the Cudahy Packing Company. The firm was the 2nd largest in the world. It covered an area of 35 acres. In 1891, Cudahy generated over $15 million in sales. Source: Pen and Sunlight Sketches of Omaha and Environs, Chicago: Phoenix Publishing Company, c1892, p. 80.
