Swift's Animal Fertilizers - Always Reliable. Office: 44 No. Market St. Boston. Works: Lowell, Mass.

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• PUBLISHER: Published by Swift and Company.

• MEDIUM: Screen print on linen,

  DATE: Undated. c.1890.

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 28 1/2 x 16 1/2" plus margins.

• DESCRIPTION: A wonderful advertising broadside printed in fabric. Gustavus Franklin Swift, was the creater of the packaged meat business. He developed refrigerated railroad cars in order the get cattle slaughtered in Chicago to the east coast withouit spoiling. Swift developed markets for many of the by-products, Out of the horns of the cattle they made combs, buttons, and hairpinsy; out of the shinbones and other big bones they cut knife and toothbrush handles; out of the hoofs they cut hairpins and buttons, before they made the rest into glue. From such things as feet, knuckles, hide clippings, and sinews came such strange and unlikely products as gelatin, isinglass, and phosphorus, bone black, shoe blacking, and bone oil. This broadside advertises fertilizer, another of the by-products.

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• CONDITION: Some damp staining within the image otherwise fine.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Broadsides