Just in time for Thanksgiving, the Municipal Archives brings you the history of the Municipal Abattoir, the official city slaughterhouse. It might seem strange to citizens today, but a municipal ...
The abattoir has been an ongoing concern for artists since its inception, from Lovis Corinth’s 1893 painting In the Slaughter House, to Chaim Soutine’s gristly Carcass of Beef (1925). Aria Dean’s ...