13 May – 3 June, 2006
Upton Sinclair stumbled upon the idea for The Jungle while on assignment for the Socialist weekly, Appeal to Reason, in 1904. He had always felt a strong connection to the workingman and a 1904 strike of Chicago meatpackers fueled his desire to uncover the working conditions in the city’s Union Stockyard. During his seven weeks in Chicago, Sinclair witnessed a Lithuanian wedding that grew into his story of struggling immigrant Jurgis Rudkus. Though Sinclair intended his book to highlight the supremacy of Socialism, The Jungle sparked public fears over the purity of meat and led to the first federal regulation of the food industry. The Newberry holdings reveal how a single book influenced a nation.
Object List
Edwards, John A. In the Western Tongue. Wichita, Kansas: McCormick-Armstrong Press, 1920.
Newberry Library H465 .255
Grand, W. Joseph. The Illustrated History of the Union Stockyards. Chicago: Thos. Knapp Ptg & Bdg Company, 1896.
Newberry Library Wing ZP 983 K675
Seven Days in Chicago. [Chicago]: J.M. Wing & Co., c.1878.
Newberry Library Wing folio ZP 883 .W7231
Meat Products.
Newberry Library H465 .56
Grand, W. Joseph. The Illustrated History of the Union Stockyards. Chicago: Thos. Knapp Ptg & Bdg Company, 1896.
Newberry Library H 465.36
Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., February 1906. First Edition.
Newberry Library Case 4A 362
“The Jungle” in One-Hoss Philosophy. Nos. 33 & 34. Girard, Kansas: 1905.
Newberry Library Case J 2617 .694
Armour, J. Ogden. The Packers, the Private Car Lines and the People. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Co., June 1906.
Newberry Library H 465 .045
McCutcheon, John T. “Where the Union Man’s Family Suffers” original drawing of cartoon published in May 16, 1905 Chicago Tribune.
Newberry Library Midwest Manuscripts McCutcheon Papers Box 2 Folder 44
The Federal Government and the Chicago Strike - 1904.
Newberry Library Midwest Manuscripts Brommel-Debs Papers Box 6 Folder 94
Armour Institute Brochure (1893-1894).
Newberry Library I 85 .04
The Independent. Dispatch from May 31, 2006.
Newberry Library Midwest MS Weinberg Papers Box 12 Folder 136 - The Muckrakers Sinclair
Sinclair, Upton. The Cup of Fury. Manhasset, NY: Channel Press, c 1956.
Newberry Library HV5292 .S5 1956
McNeal-Sinclair debate on socialism. Ten-Cent Pocket Series, No. 234. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Co., c 1921.
Newberry Library Case 3A 1278
Sinclair, Upton. Socialism and how it is coming. People’s Pocket Series, No. 153. Girard, Kansas: Appeal to Reason, [1920].
Newberry Library Case HX72 .S56 1920
Sinclair, Upton. Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation. Pasadena, California: The Author, c1925.
Newberry Library Case ºPS3537 .I85 M3 1925