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D158972-6
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- 1970-10-09 (Creation)
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Cleaning cowhides. View of machinery used in the cleaning of cowhides at the Hibbard-Stewart Co. in the Tideflats. A soggy pile of cowhides rests on the cement floor in this October, 1970, photograph. The hides would have first have had to be cured to prevent putrefaction and then soaked in water to remove any curing agent - like salt. Once the hides have been cleaned and prepared, the process can begin to turn them into leather. Hibbard-Stewart was in the business of curing/preserving green cattle hides from local slaughterhouses and shipping them through the Port of Tacoma to the Far East. According to a later advertisement in the News Tribune dated May 21, 1972, the company processed 1,200,000 pounds of cattle hides each month. Photograph ordered by Challenge Cook Brothers Inc., City of Industry, CA. (TNT 5-21-72, insert p. 16)
Hides & skins; Curing (Preservation)--Tacoma; Hibbard-Stewart Co. (Tacoma);