Presenter Matt Anderson, curator of history, will give a general overview of Sioux City’s meat industry from around 1870 when James E. Booge started his first large-scale hog slaughtering operation. The photographic presentation will include the founding of the Union Stock Yards Company in 1887 and the subsequent emergence of Sioux City as one of the nation's leading livestock markets and meatpacking centers and will end with a discussion of the decline of the central public market-based system that led to the closure of Sioux City’s stockyards in 2002.

Sioux City Stockyards, 1946

This free, photographic presentation is offered at the Sioux City Public Museum, and attendees are invited to bring their own lunches to enjoy during the presentation.