March 2011 – In and Out Like A Pig
A review of major happenings at Porkopolis.org for March 2011: blog posts on the Lords of Lard, the Reprint Series opens and a major theme upgrade is rolled out.
Lords of Lard, part 2
By the later half of the nineteenth century in the Mid-western United States, huge meatpacking houses had developed a vast infrastructure in Kansas City, Milwaukee, Cincinnati and Chicago. These houses were the creation of the revolutionary Founding Fathers of the modern U.S. meatpacking industry.
Lords of Lard, part 1
An overview of N.K. Fairbank & Co.’s pig-themed trade card advertising in the late 19th century U.S. The Porkopolis Art Museum recently added some examples of late nineteenth century advertising trade cards to its collection. These cards, advertising lard and featuring pigs, were created for the N.K. Fairbank Co. as advertisements for their household lard [...]
