CORN BELT PACKING COMPANY

Photo courtesy: Telegraph Herald and Paul Hemmer

Letterhead: Photo courtesy: Bob Reding

Photo courtesy: Cathy's Treasures, 156 Main, Dubuque

CORN BELT PACKING COMPANY. A local meatpacking firm, Corn Belt Packing, purchased the DUBUQUE BREWING AND MALTING COMPANY and opened for business on October 15, 1919.

Fred Kretschmer succeeded A. B. McCue as president and is generally given credit for making the company a profitable enterprise. The beginning of the GREAT DEPRESSION in 1921 closed the plant which was later reopened as a distribution point for a Chicago meat packer.

The 1923 Dubuque City Directory listed the corner of 30th and Washington.

Photo courtesy: Bob Reding

Notepad cover. Photo courtesy: Mike Vandenberg

On the Formal Opening Days, Saturday and Sunday, November 1-2, 1919 streams of visitors poured into the plant.Photo courtesy: Bob Reding

The packing departments were put into operation on October 15, 1919. Photo courtesy: Bob Reding

Various kinds of sausage were manufactured in the plant.Photo courtesy: Bob Reding

While only six chutes are shown, the company was able to unload eight cars of live stock at one time.Photo courtesy: Bob Reding

Photo courtesy: Joseph Jacobsmeier

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Photographic Portfolio Showing Views of Corn Belt Packing Company Plant and Equipment. Photographs taken at Dubuque, Iowa August 1919