Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 1
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- 6/10/1939
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Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 1
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Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 2
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Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 7
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Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 17
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Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 5
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Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 9
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Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 10
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Carsten Packing Company Abattoir
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Series of 21 technical drawings for the Carsten Packing Company created by the Henschien, Everds & Crombie Architects & Engineers firm on June 10, 1939. The company was based in Chicago, Illinois at 59 East Van Buren St. and they specialized in meat processing plants. The company also designed packing plans for the Frye & Co. plant in Seattle and Oscar Mayer in Iowa City. The Carsten Packing Company had been active since 1897. In 1954, the company was sold to an Eastern firm and renamed to the Hi-Grade Packing Co. In 1990, executives in Seattle closed the Tacoma processing plant and on October 24, 1996 the structure was destroyed by fire.
Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 3
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Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 4
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Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 6
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Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 8
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Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 11
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Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 12
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Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 13
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Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 15
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Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 16
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Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 18
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Carsten Packing Company Pork House
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One of 18 available technical drawings for the Carsten Packing Company, created by P.V. Cornils, in-house architect for the company, circa 1922.
Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 19
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Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 20
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Carsten Packing Company Abattoir, Sheet 0092711
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Carsten Packing Company Coolers and Shipping Office
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One of 16 available technical drawings created for the Carsten Packing Company, created by P.V. Cornils, the company's in-house architect, circa 1922.
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Carsten's Packing Company opened in Tacoma in 1903 at 1623 East "J" Street. It became part of Hygrade Food Products in 1954, and closed in 1990. circa 1909.
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
Carsten- Hygrade employees pose in the yard at the meat packing facility at 1623 East "J" St. According to Richards Studio notes, the picture is of 300-400 people. The locally owned Carstens Meat Packing got its start in Tacoma in 1903. In 1954, it was sold to the Hygrade Food Products Corporation. In 1990, the company made the decision to close its Tacoma plant.
Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Meat industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Carstens-Hygrade (Tacoma)--Employees;
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
Dressed beef hangs from hooks at the Carstens meat packing plant. The meat is ready for final distribution in this chilled display of choice prime US Government graded Kimberley Fed Beef at Carstens, now part of the Hygrade Food Products Corporation. The meat comes direct from Hygrade's own feed lots. Carstens-Hygrade had served Tacoma for over half a century. In 1956, they employed 350 people in their Tacoma plant. (TNT 9/3/1956, pg. C-5) TPL-8127
Merchandise displays--Tacoma--1950-1960; Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Meat industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Carstens-Hygrade (Tacoma);
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
Dressed sides of beef hanging from hooks in a cold storage locker at Carstens Packing Co. Photograph taken in conjunction with Carsten's Open House, celebrating their 50th anniversary in the meat packing business. In 1903, Seattle butcher and German immigrant Thomas Carstens bought 12 deserted acres on the Tideflats, the former home of the old Pacific Meat Company's plant, and began setting up what would become the largest meat packing plant on the Pacific Coast. The company eventually branched out into three processing plants: Tacoma, Seattle & Spokane. It was a huge operation that raised its own livestock, slaughtered and processed it and sold it in their own retail outlets. The company founder died in 1931 and his sons, Thomas and Philip, took over the business until they sold it in 1954 to Hy-Grade Food Products Corp. of Detroit. Hy-Grade closed the plant in 1990, citing it as out dated and not complying with EPA standards. TPL-8123
Merchandise displays--Tacoma--1950-1960; Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Meat industry--Tacoma--1950-1960;