S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 10 Preface

Duncan Alexander, President of the cornerstone on which youth can create a American Live Stock Insurance Company, was future visiting long time friend and partner, Frank complete with the ideals personified by the Harding at his home in Maine. On Duncan’s portrait gallery of greats. way back to Geneva, Illinois, he called Dale Dale, as an effective breed promoter, Runnion. publisher and editor, and Harlan, as an educator, Dale remembers the call some years lecturer and premier judge, already ago as going something like this, “As we were have their portraits hung in the gallery. Richard visiting one evening, I (Duncan) said. Frank, is an educator who teaches livestock history you and your friends should produce a video and has developed measurable performance and record the history of the Saddle and Sirloin for beef breeders through EPD’s. These three Club…Frank’s reply was short and quick…call deserve a solid thanks for once again serving Dale and tell him to get at it.” the industry all three love. Dale’s reaction was quick also. He Reading of the history is stimulating, said, “I’ll help, but Harlan Ritchie at Michigan inspirational and authentic. It portrays the State has already gathered a lot of good high ideals of men of vision, performance material on the history.” When Dale called and respect whose portraits have been added Dr. Ritchie, Harlan said, “Dr. Willham at Iowa to the gallery this past 106 years. It provides State has a wealth of material on hand. We a challenge to youth to dream and set goals should call him.” So three guys, who shared in their lives. It is a portrayal of how men’s the experience of visiting the Club in their minds and hearts along with courage and hard youth, have written “Places for Dreams”, a work can achieve and benefit society. History of the Saddle and Sirloin Club and it’s No industry has such a documented Portrait Gallery. portrait history. This is a one of a kind These three leaders of our livestock publication relating a history that needs to be industry have shared their experience of being told. It documents the vast breadth of animal at the old and new Saddle and Sirloin Club and agriculture and industries therewith associated. their insights into the true significance of these The many dreamers of the past, present, and places for dreams in the industry. Their lives those challenging youth to achieve for the have been dedicated to our livestock industry. future, are illustrated skillfully by the authors. They have emulated the leaders captured in the oil portraits they first experienced. This is why they have devoted their time to this labor Dr. Don L. Good of love. It did take time to write the story and collect the images. This labor will become a Emeritus Head, Animal Science Department Kansas State University

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 11 Home of the

Saddle and Sirloin Portrait Gallery

The Exposition Center is pictured during the Kentucky State Fair. The Center is the home of the Saddle and Sirloin Club and its famous portrait gallery of livestock industry leaders.

The Kentucky Exposition Center and sales of horses, dairy cattle and other (KEC), Louisville, Kentucky each November livestock. Over 4 million visitors each year hosts the world’s largest purebred livestock enter the Center, with over 200,000 during the show, the North American International North American. Livestock Exposition (NAILE). Exhibitors The greatest number of Saddle and with more than 22,000 entries from forty-eight Sirloin portraits hang in the West Hall of the states and Canada vie for more than $700,000 Exposition Center. The remaining portraits in premiums and awards each year. hang in South Wing C. Visitors are awed at With over 1.2 million square feet the quality of the tributes the 106 year old of exhibition space on one floor, over 260 tradition pays it’s livestock leaders. Each year events, displays and shows are held here each in November during the stock show another year. It is the home of the Kentucky State industry leader is selected by his peers and his Fair, the North American International, the All portrait is hung with due ceremony. American Angus Futurity, the National Farm Machinery Show, World’s Championship Horse Show, and numerous displays, shows

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 12 Baronial Hall with its vaulted oak-beamed ceilings, paneled walls, state flags and portraits was reminiscent of the banquet halls of medieval England and was one of the most appreciated Tudor rooms in the Club.

Livestock Industry Ideals

The ideals of the giant livestock possess an atmosphere and a quiet dignity industry are personified in a famous gallery that reflect the ideals of the industry. of oil portraits of industry leaders. This But, above all else, the collection was created in the collection is a source historic Saddle and Sirloin of inspiration to youth “…let us hope that in the Club near the Union Stock wishing to excel in our years to come it will give Yards in Chicago starting in still further assurances to vastly different livestock 1903. Industry leaders have those of the present and industry today. A modern been honored by their peers the future who may render place for dreams has been and their portraits displayed outstanding services along created around our legacy in a place of dreams, the these lines, that their of the Saddle and Sirloin Club. work and the influence of Club and the gallery of In 1977, the their example shall not be portraits of industry gallery was moved to the allowed to perish”. leaders. Kentucky Exposition Center …… A. Sanders 1915 In this work, we in Louisville, Kentucky, have liberally used the where the North American well-turned phrases of International Livestock Exposition (NAILE) Alvin H. Sanders, the dean of livestock is held. A new portrait of an industry leader journalism and editor of the Breeders Gazette is selected each year and added to the that so aptly convey an abiding love for the collection. In 1978, Dr. Hilton M. Briggs, ideals of a place of dreams. The writings president of South Dakota State University, of Sanders inspired generations of youth to was the first leader to be hung in the new become industry participants and leaders. home at Louisville. Today, after trials of time, fire and displacement, the portraits

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 13 Eighteen railroad truck lines and Great Lakes shipping quickly made Chicago a livestock and grain market hub.

Chicago - Nature’s Metropolis

Before the history and traditions of the began to hum. A hustler, William Ogden, arrived Saddle and Sirloin Club can be told, the setting and in 1835 with a dream that Chicago could become stage for this place for dreams needs to be related. the hub of commercial agriculture. Ogden made This stage is part of the rich, romantic heritage of Chicago nature’s metropolis by first creating a shell our livestock industry. of a city. Our fledgling nation won independence In six years, the first bumper crop on the at the Treaty of Paris in 1783 after eight years of western prairie rewarded him. The Chicago Board war with Great Britain. Creating a government of, of Trade that handled agriculture commodities by and for the people, as Lincoln so aptly said in opened in 1848. Ogden invited Cyrus McCormick his Gettysburg Address, was but the first step. The second was for people with dreams, who now had the freedom to act, to put their dreams into action. Our industrial revolution followed that of the British in the middle of the 19th century. Because of geography, abundant resources and freedom to act, our changes quickly dwarfed those of Europe. The commercialization of agriculture, a part of the second phase, was enacted in Chicago. The Erie Canal that linked the Great Lakes to the seaport of New York opened in 1825. What was to become Chicago was 800 miles inland, but in 1833 a sand bar was opened on the Chicago The Chicago Board of Trade opened in 1848, the River, giving the city a harbor and lake traffic year telegraph lines and Cyrus McCormick reached Chicago. The canal was dredged and construction started on the first railroad. to Chicago to mass produce farm machinery and International Harvester was the result. But what made Chicago the hub was the coming of 18 railroad trunk lines that carved their way over the Appalachian mountains using the drovers’ that were used to bring animals for slaughter and consumption back east in the 1850’s Chicago was the junction between the prairie harvest and the masses of people back east. Due The Erie Canal offered an important avenue to the to Chicago’s location…in the middle of the richest east coast for mid-west agricultural products. agricultural land in the world…it became the

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 14 largest railroad center in the nation. Each of the railroads had their own yards to receive livestock for trade. After ownership changed hands, most livestock had to be driven over Chicago streets to the riverside packing plants. In 1864, Samuel Allerton and John Sherman, Chicago business men, livestock producers and traders, began advocating “one stockyard accessible to all Chicago railroads” to more efficiently handle the volume of stock arriving for trade. That fall,

John B. Sherman opened a “yard” in 1849 as a drop- off spot for the Chicago and Galena RR. He had the cattle and hogs jump from the cars into a pile of sand. Sherman became a founder of the Union Stock Yards. best. None remained that failed to meet the challenges of progress and competition. This busiest square mile on earth, a function of the gigantic geography of this country, for the first time in the world provided “meat for the millions”, including the 21 million new immigrants The Chicago Union Stock Yards opened for trading that swelled the industrial might of the nation. December 26, 1865 while the South was undergoing There was no precedent in Europe or elsewhere. reconstruction after the Civil War. The yellow fleet of refrigerator railroad cars built eleven railroad men and eight packers put the idea by the packers helped solve the distribution problem in motion. By mid-year, 320 acres at the south edge for meat. This alone was ingenious. of the city had been purchased and construction The 19th Century is replete with the had started. On December 26, 1865, the Union romance of the drives to the railheads of Stock Yards and Transit Company (USY&TC), Kansas and our most treasured hero…the . complete with yards, exchange building and transit The stringy Longhorn raised on grass gave but poor house, opened for business. The packing houses beef and in the mid-west there began a conscious quickly left their polluted riverside sites and formed effort to improve the product. Since Britain ‘Packingtown’ next to the yards and became part had initiated the industrial revolution, it seemed of the “busiest square mile in the world.” Chicago logical to import en masse the British breeds of was set to become the focal point of the whole vast livestock that had been developed in response to livestock marketing and meat packing industry and their revolution. They had moved the draft ox to in the next 75 years over 900,000,000 head were an earlier maturing beast that provided meat and traded there. tallow for both workers and the elite. It was logical The meat packers who hung up their that the hub of importation and breeding of better gambrels in ‘Packingtown’, namely Morris, Swift, livestock was to be Chicago. Armour and numerous others, provide a clear Coupled with this interest was the growth example of enterprise freedom at its constructive of livestock publications and in 1891, one James

Among the packers opening Packingtown plants were Nelson Morris, founder of Morris Packing, G.H. Swift, Swift and Company and Philip D. Armour, Armour and Co. (left to right)

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 15 H. Sanders and son Alvin H. started the Breeders housed the thousands of immigrant workers and Gazette that became the bible for seed stock their families, who worked on the slaughter floors breeders in the States. Both were prolific writers covered with blood, in the dank chilling rooms, and but it was Alvin’s work of reporting the happenings of the commercial and purebred industry from ‘Packingtown’ to the seed stock nurseries of Scotland that earned him the title of ‘Dean of

Many Texas Longhorns arrived on the Chicago market after a trail drive to a Kansas Pacific RR load-ing point. In four years Joseph McCoy shipped The concentration of packing houses and related processing plants two million head created a pall over “Packingtown”. to Chicago from Abilene, Kansas. at the smell-laden tankage vats. This was made clear in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair in 1905. The book did little to Livestock Journalists’. It was Alvin H. Sanders help the workers, but it did produce the Pure Food who understood and could write about what was and Drug Act of 1906 that did much to assure really happening for the world in Packingtown of wholesome products. Chicago. The stage of ‘Packingtown’ is now set. Sanders, in 1915, noted “in all directions There remains to consider the Livestock Exposition round about there is naught but dreary monotony that was created in Chicago just outside the stone and commonplace, a wilderness of bricks and gates at the yards entrance. yards and passageways, and over all there hangs persistently a pall of smoke emitted by the craters of ceaseless colossal commercial activities.” Couple with this the “back of the yards” - tenements that

The “International” Amphitheatre and the twenty buildings that constituted the Chicago International Live Stock Exposition.

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 16 The International Live Stock Exposition had proved so useful in livestock improvement this amphitheatre quickly replaced the 1900 model after the 1934 Stock Yards fire.

The International Live Stock Exposition

The International Live Stock Exposition The first International of 1900 was reported began in 1900. There had been fat stock shows in on by Sanders: “As one stands bewildered at the previous years held in a glass domed facility which feats of a magician, so the creators of the exposition was still standing in down-town Chicago from the gazed in amazement at their own handiwork. 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. During the Conjured up from the resources of a continent, The fall of 1899, the leaders from breed associations, International Live Stock Exposition sprang full the agricultural colleges and the agricultural press rounded into an astonishing existence. Over 6,000 together with the railroads and livestock interests of the finest animals were on exhibition and entered of Chicago perceived a lack of knowledge of the in competition for $75,000 worth of premiums in benefits and profits to be derived from breeding 600 classes of breeding and fat classes. It was and feeding a better class of livestock. Steers sired viewed by 300,000 visitors from nearly every state by recent imports from Britain in the fat show were and many foreign countries”. feeding this thinking. Practical education was necessary to attract the attention of producers. The Union Stock Yards and Transit Company offered a site, buildings and undertook to finance the show, not for monetary reward, but for the purpose of benefiting the entire livestock and agricultural interests of the country. There was precedent set back in Britain. The Smithfield Show and the Royal had proved to be far more educational than had the Annals of Agriculture published by Arthur Young in the 1790’s. This is why the North American International Livestock Exposition (NAILE) still exerts a calling to stock persons. Today, stock have The Grand Champion steer of the first International in 1900 genetic predictions of their economic performance was Advance, shown by B. R. Pierce, Creston, Illinois. based on science for breeders to consider in making Today the fourth generation continues the Woodlawn Farm Pierce tradition. their selections.

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 17 The International became the largest show Stance”, the original Spoor Trophy, remained in the world. It followed the state fairs and the Exposition’s trademark. regional shows, so it became the culmination The words of Will H. Ogilvie of the fall show circuit. Stockmen from written in Kelso, Scotland, in 1906, reveal the around the world gathered to study the prize International in all its splendor: winning stock judged so by prominent judges, many from the home countries. The stock There’s murmur ripples among the crowd, was displayed in buildings around the great There’s a stir at the entrance gate, amphitheater with its ring of tanbark where Where biting the bar-bits, prancing and the battles were fought during the day and proud, splendid horse shows were held in the evening The Percheron geldings wait; to the cheers of enthusiastic town and country Then, shining harness and light ablaze folk. The exposition advertised the livestock As slow to the rein they swing, industry with all its glamour to the world. With foam on their bits the Armour greys The emblem of the International Come champing into the ring.

There’s a muffled thunder of tramping feet And a roar like the roar of tides, And someone shouts and the rest repeat, “Here come the Morris Clydes!” And the hearts of the Scotmen throb and “lep” As the team no wealth can buy Spurning the dust with their “heather step” In the pride of the north go by.

The University of Illinois won the first National It is far and far to Chicago now Collegiate Judging Contest. The team is pictured with the Spoor trophy. And the glitter of yonder teams; I shall never see them again, I trow, from 1900 on was the bronze bull sculpted Except in the land of my dreams. by Isidore Bonheur, brother of the famous But oft and oft when all sounds are stilled animal painter Rosa Bonheur. John A. Spoor, I can hear the cheers roll down then Chairman of the USY&TC, purchased And see the ring with the splendor filled the original in Paris in 1900. Named the Of the teams of Packingtown. “Spoor Trophy”, it was awarded annually to the University whose judging team won the “... the most inter- esting feature of National Collegiate Livestock Judging Contest this exhibit to me, and won permanent possession after winning gentlemen, is the at the International three times. Three bronze presence of these bulls have since been prizes for winning the college boys...” National contest. However the “Bull in Defiant -Ag. Sec’y “Tama Jim” Wilson at the 1902 International

“The massively magnificent and splendidly impressive incarnations of animate power in heavy harness thundered out of the arena to the crash of brass and drums and The Morris Clydes were one of the many packing the plaudits of the multitude. The assembled house teams who thrilled the stock show crowds over thousands rose en masse, and cheer upon the years. cheer resounded throughout the Amphitheatre.

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 18 The last set of a stirring realistic drama had been What is really so amazing is that there were, successfully staged. The throngs were quickly amid the hustle and bustle at the very heart of swallowed up on the crowded city streets, and American agriculture, men who had such a love presently the brilliant scene had faded like the of the industry and Promethian foresight to find unsubstantial pageant of a dream.” (Sanders 1915) some rooms on a third floor for a club dedicated to The setting and stage for our story of displaying portraits of their peers for posterity. the Saddle and Sirloin Club has been developed.

National 4-H Congress delegates parade before a packed night horse show crowd in the International Coliseum.

The Saddle and Sirloin Club

The initial success of the International heart of each… the development of a higher type brought problems pressing for solutions. How of animal husbandry in the United States. The were the distinguished guests being attracted by International, it was agreed, would be the rallying the International to be properly welcomed and point for the breeders. entertained, especially the foreign judges from the Mr. Ogilvie, a previous resident of homeland of the breeds? The dingy and out-of-date Madison, was a library of information about the Transit House was impossible. Then, came the breeds and many of the master breeders. Mr. beginning of a solution. Leonard had already carried out another enterprise It all happened one afternoon in June of on behalf of American stockbreeding, the erection 1903. Arthur Leonard (manager of the USY&TC), of a building at the Yards in which various national Robert Ogilvie (a Scotsman then secretary of the registry associations should find a home rent free Clydesdale breed) and Alvin Sanders (editor and a convention hall for breeder meetings. of the Breeders Gazette) were aboard a train Sanders recalled, “We talked headed for Madison, Wisconsin to pay a visit to the enthusiastically of this building for some time… agricultural college and Dean William H. Henry. and then came the grand idea…a club room…yes, The men fell to talking on a subject near to the but what sort? Primarily, of course, a place for the

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 19 were ever recalling the glories of the past. Zest was added to their deliberations by the presence of living masters of livestock breeding, the art of arts, from far and near. From such an atmosphere as this, it was easy to evolve a plan of doing homage to the great men of older days. However, the mighty collection of portraits of men, living or dead, that became the trademark of the Club was not the work of a day or a night. The gallery was never complete, but however faulty, there was never a difference of This collage commemorates the train ride when three opinion as to the worth of the educational, historical founders Alvin Sanders, Arthur Leonard and Robert Ogilvie conceived the idea of a club at the Stock Yards. and inspirational value of the portraits. Robert Ogilvie was responsible for many of the portraits, daily comforts of those doing business at the yards especially the old masters and many of the works of was needed. But why not extend the proposition in art that set the Club apart from all others. such a way as to make it a real haven of rest, a boon and blessing beyond compare, to those who shall come from far and near to see the great show, or participate in the conventions, banquets and other functions? To this all readily agreed. “And, as we journeyed on, a vision was unfolded. There was painted in fancy the beautiful ends to be served in a thousand different ways by the club of our dreams… the potential center of inspiration to be felt to the very outermost edges of a sprawling giant of our industry! “And, presently all that was lacking was a name! Before we reached Madison, that point was settled. The decision for the Saddle and Sirloin The top floor of the Purebred Livestock Records Building, adjacent to the Stock Yards Inn and the Amphitheatre, Club was unanimous. It was soon recognized as housed the Saddle and Sirloin Club. distinctive, significant and in an extraordinary degree, appropriate.” Dean William A. Henry, who served as their host at the University that evening, thanks to “It is one thing to draw well Mr. Ogilvie, was the first to have his portrait hung and deftly blend pigment to in the club. canvas. To produce a The men who met each December to National or International discuss over a sirloin or a saddle of lamb the Champion is quite another. breeding and performances of the International Sois demanded in assembling and fusing the materials into the making of a breed”.

-A. Sanders 1915

Wentworth refers to the popular Dean Upon entering the Club, one was greeted of the University of Wiscon-sin, W. A. by the accommodating maitre d’ in tuxedo standing Henry, as “Dean of by the desk over which was displayed the original the patriarchs of rural sketch (oil wash) of the HORSE FAIR by Rosa progress.” Bonheur. One is reminded of the golden words of Alvin Sanders “Rosa Bonheur gave the world the HORSE FAIR but her models were the creation of

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 20 and then the collection was widely dispersed after the Club fell to the wrecking ball of progress in 1977. Only a few of these works can be shared today. Let us continue our tour of the Tudor- appointed Club rooms and catch a glimpse of the effect this place of dreams had on its visitors. Youth were often introduced to it at banquets One of the Club’s most valuable treasures was the original honoring judging teams, attending 4-H Congresses sketch (oil wash) The Horse Fair by Rosa Bonheur. It is or other activities of the International. Few who now in the Art Institute of Chicago. were introduced to the Club failed to pick up a the breeders of Perche. Perche is the traditional neatly-turned brochure of the Club. This memento home for the Percheron breed in France. It is one usually became the centerpiece of any scrapbook thing to draw well and deftly blend pigment to made of a youth’s first trip to the Windy City at canvas. To produce a champion is quite another Thanksgiving time for the show. thing. Something more than that is demanded in assembling and fusing the materials that enter into the making of a breed.” This eloquent quotation from the dean of livestock journalism compares the work of one of the most famous animal artists with the work of the master breeders who welded together the breeds of livestock. Thus for the Club to present the wonders of the livestock industry in art was indeed fitting. The urge to create is common among artists and stockbreeders. Then, as now, livestock are living artifacts in which the brush strokes of centuries of breeders are coded in the Delegates to the National 4-H Club Congress gather before the Stock Yards Inn for an orientation during the medium of DNA, the hereditary material. International Live Stock Exposition. Also in the Reception Hall of the Club hung the most alluring painting of the Shorthorn Excerpts from a brochure by Will Ogilvie, bull Comet, the first bull of any breed to sell at son of Robert and then assistant manager of the auction for $5000. Thomas Weaver, one of the show, will be used generously to describe and leading British painters of livestock, created the bring out the features of this club of dreams. The painting in 1811. interpretation of the Club’s true relationship to the livestock industry was first made in a book entitled At The Sign of The Stock Yard Inn written in 1915 by Alvin H. Sanders. It was necessary, in the beginning, to find some means of obtaining funds for the painting of portraits especially desired for the Club of those patriarchs of animal breeding who had long since passed on. Henry Brown of timber and iron ore fame and owner of Browndale Shorthorns in Minnesota wanted to help. He furnished this needed financial support that made possible the first portraits of the noted British improvers of cattle and The 1811 oil painting of the famous Shorthorn bull, Comet, sheep…Robert Bakewell, Thomas Bates, John and by Thomas Weaver, is one of the priceless art pieces lost in the Stock Yards fire. Richard Booth, Jonas Webb, William Torr, Amos Cruickshank and a number of pioneer American The Club galleries also contained breeders. From the very beginning, the Club rooms lithographs, water colors, oil paintings, bronze met with the keenest appreciation by exhibitors, pieces and photographs of animals, both historical judges, breeders and visitors who came to Chicago and modern-day. Most were lost in the 1934 fire to participate in the International, but the entire collection was almost lost.

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 21 Frank Harding, employed as a buyer for Frederick H. Prince, of Boston, formerly Armour and a part time student at the University Chairman of the Board of the Union Stock Yards of Chicago, looked up from campus on a Saturday and Transit Company, expressed his faith in the in 1934 and saw a horrendous black cloud of livestock industry by giving his financial support to smoke. He realized by its position that the Stock the vast reconstruction program of the stockyard area Yards were ablaze. Frank rushed to the yards and and to replace the entire complex. Landmarks for some three days proceeded to help keep the and shrines such as the Saddle and Sirloin Club, yards operating. Amazingly, Monday the Yards the Stock Yard Inn and the Livestock National opened and handled a 27,000 head run…larger than Bank were replaced. The Exposition opened in its anticipated. new quarters, the International Amphitheatre, on This devastating fire entirely destroyed December 1, 1934, less than seven months after the the Saddle and Sirloin Club and its gallery of over devastating fire. 200 portraits of leading patrons of animal breeding Robert W. Grafton, artist for the Club of North and South America and Great Britain. in 1934, was commissioned within a week after This disaster aroused a sense of irreparable loss the conflagration to begin repainting portraits that throughout the entire livestock breeding world. Not had been thought by everyone forever lost. He a portrait remained, none of the rare furnishings completed 104 portraits in 18 months. The visitor,

Shorthorn enthusiast Henry F. Brown provided funds for portraits of several British breed founders in the early days of the Club, including Robert Bakewell, Thomas Bates and Amos Cruickshank. and fixtures, valued trophies which were symbols uninformed of the disaster, would not have been of many historic conflicts in the show yard history aware the fire had occurred. of past Internationals were lost. Only a few of the A beautiful room was added to the Club in bronze pieces were salvaged. the rebuilding… the gift of William Wood Prince… Opinion was wide spread that the loss in memory of Frederick H. Prince. Adjoining could never be replaced. Those who mourned had the Prince Memorial Room was a small room not reckoned with the tremendous determination in which history relating to American Animal and reconstructive forces that were immediately put Husbandry had repeatedly been made. Leaders into action. of the industry had met here through the years to

A devastating fire on May 2, 1934 burned the south end of The International complex was replaced after the 1934 the yards and the International complex, including the huge fire and was ready for the nation’s best livestock to vie for amphitheatre and supporting buildings. championship honors that fall, seven months later.

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 22 review its achievements and plan for the future. Upon its walls were portraits of great men of other times … those who established and improved the major breeds of cattle and sheep…Britons for the most part, who accomplished their pioneer work in animal breeding prior to and after the turn of the 19th Century. This room was the real heart of the Club, and was named the ‘Sanctum Sanctorum’.

The banquet hall was ready for judging teams, the American Society for Animal Science, breed associations and other national events in November 1934 after the fire.

more or less for granted, essential and commonplace. The Saddle and Sirloin Club dispels any preconceived impression. In public regard, this portrait collection, in its beauty and high character, elevates the livestock industry it represents to The “Sanctum Sanctorium” of the Saddle and Sirloin Club a top place among all great American fields of displayed portraits of many of the breed founders. endeavor. Alvin Sanders explained the occasion that gave rise to this keynote for the Club. “It was while seated in an easy chair one day contemplating the great array of portraits that were assembled in the Club when a group of visitors strolled by studying Sanctum Sanctorum the pictures. Clearly they were not well enough informed to grasp the meaning of it all. Their Stranger within our gates, who’er thou art, obvious lack of appreciation of the true significance Within these silent walls ye may commune of the scene led me then and there to jot down the With lofty spirits of a lofty path Rich in achievements wrought in fruitful fields lines that have been preserved in bronze.” And benefactions rendered human kind. There was a Reception Hall and a Gold Room, but the most impressive room in the Club Here have we builded us an inner shrine was the Baronial Hall. The vaulted oak-beamed Wherein the wrangling of the busy marketplace Obtrudeth not, whereto, in quiet hours, we come ceiling and paneled walls imparted an atmosphere To cast aside each selfish, sordid thought, reminiscent of the banquet halls of medieval And pledge our faith in high ideals anew. England. The paneled Banquet Hall, that could accommodate 400 people at luncheon or banquet, Alvin Howard Sanders provided a popular setting for the numerous association meetings during the International. Alvin Sanders’ penned expression of appreciation for the The Saddle and Sirloin Club was the sanctity of the Club on bronze was one of the artifacts world’s largest collection of quality portraits of recovered from the fire. men devoted to a single industry. Its collection was acknowledged for its artistic quality and, of course, possessed great and growing sentimental and historic value. Visitors to the Club were impressed that any business should have achieved such dignity and beauty in the expression of its spirit. They gave new respect for an industry that is apt to be taken

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 23 The stone gate built in 1879 by Chicago architects Burnham and Root, once marked the entrance to the Stock Yards. It is now a Chicago historical landmark at the entrance to an industrial park.

Decentralization of the Livestock Industry

Through the 1830’s to the ‘50’s, drovers trailed source of finished product. Modern packing plants livestock to markets in Buffalo, New York, Boston were built near the new feed yards. By 1972, the and other eastern cities to supply meat. This system Union Stock Yards and the antiquated slaughter faded with the coming of the empire of steel rails houses adjacent faded from existence. and production of finished product expanding The stone gate that once marked the into the corn belt. From the 1860’s to the 1960’s, entrance to the yards is now a historical landmark. stock cars and refrigerator cars created vast central The physical need for the Saddle and Sirloin Club markets and packing facilities in Chicago, Kansas was eliminated. After Thanksgiving week in 1975, City, St. Louis, Omaha and other rail heads. During the International Amphitheatre flags heralding the this period there was a 30 year time of trail drives International Live Stock Exposition came down. from Texas to the rail heads in Kansas. The complex was scheduled for the wrecking ball. By the middle of the 20th century, giant The amphitheatre remained as a site for concerts cattle feed yards were opened in the southwest and other events until 1999 when it was taken replacing the corn belt family farm as the main down.

Family farm feedlots in the midwest were replaced with giant sized feed lots in the southwest during the mid 20th century. Packers moved and the Union Stock Yards closed.

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 24 The annual November North American Livestock Frank Harding, a director of the International, was Exposition became the North American International asked to find a new home for the the portrait gallery. Livestock Exposition in 1978 after the transfer of the portraits.

Portrait Gallery Moved

When the Union Stock Yards was closed in 1976 to continue the tradition of adding a new portrait and the Livestock Records Building was scheduled of a livestock notable each year. The selection for the wrecking ball, William Wood Prince, is determined by an advisory committee from Chairman of the USY&TC Board, advised Frank nominations submitted by the nominees’ peers. Harding that he was to find a new home for The new portrait is presented with an appropriate the portraits. After visiting Denver, Ft. Worth, ceremony during the annual North American Kansas City and other shows and possible sites, International Livestock Exposition (NAILE) in Frank contacted Harold Workman, at the home of November. Harold Workman who spearheaded the North American Livestock Exposition. They the move to accept the gallery is now President and were interested. The Fair Board, Dean Charles CEO of the Kentucky State Fair Board and General Barnhart (University of Kentucky), Henry Besuden Manager of NAILE. He was the 2003 gallery (Kentucky sheep breeder), and other interested honoree. people visited Chicago. Dr. Wesley P. Garrigus, head of the University of Kentucky Animal Husbandry Department, was set up to be the curator if the move was made. Negotiations not only charted transfer of the portrait gallery but the right for the Kentucky people to use the name “International Livestock Show and Exposition” in any way they wished. The plan to move to Louisville was approved by Mr. Prince when the spacious facilities and interest to further the Saddle and Sirloin tradition was presented to him. Harold F. Workman, general In early 1977, the gallery was moved. manager of the North American Kentucky welcomed it with open arms. With the International, played an important role in bringing the gallery to move, the Kentucky Exposition Center offered Louisville.

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 25 Louisville, at the falls of the Ohio River, was destined to be a bustling city from it’s very foundation in 1787.

Louisville: Gateway City

Louisville, The Gateway City, is home of the for the growth of Louisville. James Guthrie, Kentucky Derby, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, born 1792, was an astute banker, promoter and the Kentucky Exposition Center and the Saddle and manipulator in the days of western expansion. Sirloin Club Portrait Gallery. Milton Hannibal Smith who followed Guthrie as In 1778, 26 families were brought 600 president of L & N Railroad exerted a powerful miles down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh on influence over the city and region. The third man rafts by George Rogers Clark. They “set up was a banker and promoter of the twenties, James housekeeping” on Corn Island on the “Ohio near B. Brown, known as the money master of the the Rapids”. Other pioneers followed and the Harding, Coolidge, Hoover era. His community settlement expanded on the south bank of the river and area influence as president of the Bank of in the County of Kentucke in the State of Virginia. Kentucky and owner of the Louisville-Courier In 1780, the town of Louisville was founded, Journal was unprecedented. twelve years before Kentucky became a state. One historian relates, “Louisville was destined to become a metropolis.” After the Louisiana Purchase and the completion of the canal around the Rapids in 1830, the Mississippi River trade with New Orleans and St. Louis, Pittsburgh and the East was assured. Travelers could buy packet steamer tickets between Louisville and Havana or Liverpool. Southern planters came to buy cotton gins, sugar mills, pork and flour. Out of Louisville northbound went sugar, molasses, coffee and cotton. It was a broker’s paradise and wealth was accumulated fast The Ohio River trade east and the traffic to New Orleans in the new city “at the Rapids on the Ohio”. made Louisville a business hub for a wide area. Three citizens deserve special consideration

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 26 The Bourbon Stock Yards was founded in 1875 on the banks of Beargrass Creek. In 1920 it was the South’s largest market.

The Bourbon Stock Yards

As population increased and herds grew, 1939 the show attracted 1200 head. farmers needed a more centralized livestock market. The Bourbon Beef Show was formed in Small packing plants were being built by German 1946 and by 1960 was one of the largest fat cattle immigrants along the Beargrass Creek at the east shows in the nation, including both youth and open edge of downtown Louisville. “Butchertown” shows. It outgrew the yard facilities. The event soon brought candle, lamp oil, soap and related was gradually phased into the North American businesses to this end of town. Livestock Exposition at the Kentucky Fair and Drovers brought their livestock to the Exposition Center in the early 1970’s. young packing center over the toll roads of the By 1999 the stockyards had ceased time. Overnight accommodations for drovers were operations. The old chutes and buildings remained built. The Bourbon House in 1834 built holding as a testiment to the industry until 2001 when the pens behind their inn to confine ’s animals area was demolished to make way for the new until they were sold. In the 1860’s more drovers Home of the Innocents, a half way house for houses with stock pens opened. In following years children and families in crisis. several of the yards were consolidated by Bourbon House. In 1875 the National Stock Yard Company reorganized and incorporated itself as Bourbon Stock Yard Company and the commission system was established. Cattle receipts in 1877 were 52,129, hogs 344,300 and sheep 102,020. From 1834-1875 Louisville became one of the leading meat packing centers in the country. By the early 1920’s, Louisville replaced Cincinnati, known as Porkopolis, as the South’s largest livestock market. In 1921 the Bourbon Stock Yards, Live Stock Exchange and University of Kentucky College of Agriculture inaugurated the Louisville Fat Cattle The Bourbon Beef Show started in 1946. The popular Show. It was held at the yards from 1921-1946. By event attracted quality junior and open show entries from many states.

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 27 The Kentucky Exposition Center is one of the world’s largest and most comfortable facilities serving the livestock industry. Seventy million dollars has been spent in the last ten years for expansions and improvements.

Kentucky Exposition Center

A powerful body of affluent Louisville society and banking interests in our story was the Jockey Club. They established and in 1875 the first Kentucky Derby was held. It was on these grounds that the first Kentucky State Fair was held in 1902. Although smaller fairs had been held in the state since 1816, this was the first state wide exposition. In 1950 after many site moves, a 357 acre tract south of the city was selected for a permanent state fair. The first event was held there in 1956. Today the facility has 1.2 million air- conditioned square feet of exposition space, all on one floor. The 19,000 seat show

and rodeo arena anchors the spacious facility now known as the Kentucky Exposition Center. It is now some 570 acres, making it the sixth largest facility of its kind in the United States. With encouragement from the beef cattle registry associations, the Kentucky State Fair Board and the Kentucky Department of Agriculture founded the North American Livestock show in November 1974. The Chicago International’s last show followed Thanksgiving in 1975. In following years, classes for hogs, sheep, dairy cattle, quarter Churchill Downs, home of the country’s most famous horses, draft horses, mules & donkeys, dairy & meat horse race, the Kentucky Derby, hosted the first Kentucky goats, and llamas & alpacas have been added to the state fair in 1902.

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 28 North American classes. Today the 16 day event also countries. The 22,000+ entries of 4,000 breeders hosts the North American Championship Rodeo. from 48 states and Canada divided $700,000 in In 1978, the North American was renamed premiums. In addition to the contest for ten livestock the North American International Livestock species, the 2008 NAILE held the National 4-H, Exposition. Its growth and prestige as the livestock Junior College and Collegiate Livestock Judging show of power has been continuous. In 2008 the contests during the two week event in November. NAILE show attracted 200,000+ visitors from 12

The exhibit of the Saddle and Sirloin portraits in the West Hall of the Kentucky State Fair complex is available to visitors year round.

106 Years of Gallery Honorees

The Saddle and Sirloin Gallery, now under the ring opinions. Walter Biggar is listed as a British auspices of KEC, represents a diverse cross section of breeder, yet he judged the International Steer Show illustrious men who have made major contributions an unprecedented 13 times. to the industry as judged by their peers. The industry has shown its respect for those who have improved the respective breeds of livestock. Of the 347 portraits in the hall, 119 are of breed founders and breeders. Livestock improvement was one of Walter Biggar- the goals of the Club founders in 1903. Renowned Scottish The second largest group of portraits breeder, judge include men whose “day job” was with one of and exporter who our state universities. Their titles ranged from judged the premier shows of the United university presidents and department heads to Kingdom, Canada teachers, researchers and extension specialists. and . Many were widely known for the influence their judgments had on charting direction for species and breeds. Deans Kildee, Weber, Darlow and others as well as many of the 64 college associates represented were known world wide for their show

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 29 Packers, packer buyers, yards commission press. The promoters of the industry, including men and stock yards administrators are represented breed secretaries, stock show administrators and with 48 portraits. G. H. Swift, founder of Swift and auctioneers are the next largest group of honorees in Company, and his three sons who followed him as the hall. head of the company or one of its divisions is the Presidents Coolidge, Grant and Hoover largest family in the gallery. Thirteen meat packers hang with six U.S. Secretaries of Agriculture. Also from the Swift, Armour, Cudahy, Hammond and suitably enshrined are the portraits of Congressmen Morris families hang along with trail drivers of the Henry C. Adams and Senator J. S. Morrill who 1860’s, Goodnight, Chisholm, Lytle and “Shanghai introduced legislation that established and financed Pierce”. the Land-Grant Colleges. Congressman William H. George Harding, owner of Anoka Farm Hatch authored the bill that established Agricultural Shorthorns, is the patriarch of one of the two families Experiment Stations in every state. in the gallery with three generations represented. When the portrait gallery was moved to the Son, F.W. was longtime secretary of the Shorthorn KEC in 1977, Dr. Wesley P. Garrigus, former head Association and an exporter. Grandson Frank, who of Animal Sciences at the University of Kentucky, figures so prominently in this history, was a founder served as a curator of the portrait collection. In of American Livestock Insurance Company. 1981, Dr. Garrigus photographed the portraits and The Funk families were large land owners researched biographical information of the honorees and feeders in Illinois. Isaac started the holdings in for publication. Updates were published in 1992, 1823. Son Lafayette and grandson Eugene followed. 1998 and 2003. Additional biographies are part of All were active in state politics. Son Eugene is noted this 2009 edition. for his research work in corn hybrids. The following study is an attempt to answer Alvin H. Sanders and his father, James, the question asked so many times...who is in the hang with 21 professionals from the livestock Saddle and Sirloin gallery?

The Saddle and Sirloin Club takes over the VIP room on the second floor of Freedom Hall during the NAILE Show.

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 30 Occupation Analysis of 347 Honorees

Ag College Personnel Businessmen 12 Lawyers 1 Priest 1 Presidents 8 Cattle Feeder 6 Livestock Breeders Ranchers 11 Deans 18 Congressmen 7 Angus 14 Sec’y L.S. Assns 2 Dept. Heads 20 Corn Breeder 1 Dairy 6 Stock Show Mgt 7 Teachers 8 Editors/Press 2 Hereford 10 Stock Yards Researchers 8 Foreign Breeders Horse 16 Commission 14 Ag Extension 3 Breed Founders 7 Red Angus 1 Packerse/Buyers 21 Artist 1 British Breeders 12 Sheep 11 USDA/BAI 6 Auctioneers 4 S. AM Breeders 3 Swine 12 US Sec’y Agr 9 Bankers 1 Governors 1 Shorthorn 24 US Presidents 3 Breed Sec’y 15 Pioneers 5 Vets 5

The first portrait to be hung at the North American International Livestock Exposition was South Dakota State University President and respected sheep judge, Hilton M. Briggs. More than half of those accepted since the move in 1977 have come from the college ranks.

Occupation Analysis of Honorees Since 1977

College Teacher 3 Livestock Breeder Press/Editor 1 Presidents 1 Breed Founder 1 Angus 3 Stock Show Mgt 2 Deans 2 Breed Sec’y 3 Red Angus 1 USDA/BAI 2 Dept. Heads 9 Businessman 1 Shorthorn 1 Swine 2

Peers making the selections since 1977 major shows for many years. Herman Purdy is have also shown their respect for livestock judges. said to have judged over 1700 events…45 of them Eight of this college group could rightly be classified overseas including all their major shows. as livestock judges. This group has dominated the

The official logo of the North American International Herman R. Purdy, teacher, judging team Livestock Exposition on ribbons and rosettes follows coach and one of the world’s most revered its many champions back home to the show barn or livestock judges reflects the respect the the farm office. industry has had for its judges.

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 31 Summary: Our Place for Dreams Today

Over a century ago, three men had a dream traffic up and down the Ohio (1830). Chicago and turned it into a club…a place for those doing had Packing-town…Louisville had Butchertown. business in the Chicago Union Stock Yards… Railroad drop offs in Chicago became the Chicago to dine, entertain and to relax…a meeting place Union Stock Yards (1865). Holding pens behind for stockmen and their associations. The idea of drover’s inns in Louisville became the Bourbon honoring one of their own for his contributions to Stock Yards (1875). Men in the yards encouraged the industry with the hanging of an oil portrait of him livestock improvement with fat stock shows… the in the club became the part of the dream that lives International in Chicago (1900)… the Louisville today and has world wide respect. For 76 years, 4- Fat Cattle Show (1921) …the Bourbon Beef Show H Club members, college (1946). students and exhibitors Now the famous to the International, and gallery is in the halls visitors world wide were of the Kentucky awed that any industry Exposition Center. should show such respect The center hosts to its acknowledged four million visitors leaders. of the world each With the year. Many enjoy wrecking ball ordered for a personal stimulus the Livestock Records from the portraits of Building at the edge of the eminent industry the Chicago Yards, a leaders who hang search for a new home for there. the portrait gallery was Eight former Saddle and Sirloin honorees and their wives met The authors for lunch at the club after the traditional hanging during the started. It is providential 2002 NAILE. Seated: Dr. Don L. Good ‘87; Ben R. Houston have done their that Louisville became ‘02; Standing: Dr. Robert Totusek ‘97; Dr. Ronald H. Nelson best to utilize the the site, more specifically ‘90; Dr. Harlan D. Ritchie ‘94; Dr. O. G. Daniel ‘01; Fred H. information both the Kentucky Exposition Johnson ‘97; Dale F. Runnion ‘88. new and old to share Center. with you. We want The two cities had so many similarities. to communicate a reflection of the ideals of the first In the early days… water traffic, plank roads, Place of Dreams and the new Place FOR Dreams, railroad trunk lines. Chicago had to dredge sand so you will aspire to serve the livestock industry in out of the river to let the Great Lakes ships into such a way that those of another age can look down port (1833). Louisville had to build a canal from their golden frames with mute approval. around the Ohio River Rapids to expedite river

Dale F. Runnion, ‘88 Harlan D. Ritchie, ‘94 Richard L. Willham, ‘04

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 32 The Master Stockman The Stockman’s Creed

With glad acclaim and bearing garlands bright and wreaths of hay We sing the glories of the fecund fields where herdsmen-shepherds hold their gentle sway!

In pastures green, by running brooks: in bosky dells, in grassy nooks; The distant mellow jangling of sweet bells proclaims the peaceful paths Of lowing herds and fleecy flocks, the gifts supreme of husbandry. Blessed be the lands on which they graze! And blessed those who guide them on their ways!

Wielders of power that verges on the infinite itself! Dreamers of dreams who live to see their dreams come true! Workers of miracles in a world that’s all their own! Keepers of keys to life’s most hidden mysteries! Let kings and lords of lesser human realms make way! While all the nations from the depths of grateful hearts Unite to crown the master stockman master of the art of arts! -Alvin H. Sanders

Alvin H. Sanders - Dean of livestock journalism and editor of the Breeders Gazette.

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 33 Trend Setting Events Influencing the Livestock Industry

1609 - First British breeds of sheep arrive in Jamestown Colony 1783 - Treaty of Paris signified the end of the eight year war with Great Britain 1785 - 1800 - Western migration of sheep and settlers into the Ohio Valley 1793 - Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin 1825 - Building the Eire Canal to link northwest with New York 1830 - Canal around the Ohio River rapids at Louisville spurred river commerce 1833 - Chicago ports were opened for Great Lakes shipping after a sandbar was dredged 1848 - Chicago Board of Trade opened 1855 - Michigan Agriculture College established - 1st Agri college 1862 - Morrill Act provided land grants for each state for Agri and mechanical college 1865 - The Union Stock Yards and Transit Co. ( Chicago Union Stock Yards ) opened for business 1867 - Joseph McCoy opened Abilene, KS yards on Kansas Pacific RR to receive trail herds driven from Texas…2 million head were shipped in four year 1868 - Kansas City opened its first packing plant 1869 - Bourbon Stock Yards opened in Louisville, KY…inc. in 1875 1874 - Farmer J. F. Glidden, DeKalb, IL invented barbed wire…led to fencing the Great Plains 1881 - Hereford Assn formed in Chicago; Shorthorn in ‘82, Angus in ‘83 1886-1887 - The big cattle die-off in West’s worst winter 1887 - Hatch Act…State Agricultural Experiment Stations 1891 - James F. Sanders and son Alvin H. founded The Breeders Gazette 1898 - National Livestock Association founded in Denver….became the NCBA in 1996 1900 - First International Live Stock Exposition. Fat stock shows were held after the World’s Columbian Exposition in converted buildings from the Exposition 1900 - Rocky Mountain region becomes the center of the US sheep industry 1902 - First Kentucky State Fair hosted by Churchill Downs 1903 - Saddle and Sirloin Club founded in Livestock Records Building at the Union Stock Yard’s entrance 1908 - Ford’s Model ‘T’ came off the production line in Detroit 1919 - North American Wool Growers Association had their first promotional campaign 1922 - National Livestock and Meat Board was founded 1932 - Drought produces ‘dust bowl’ in Great Plains states 1934 - The Union Stock Yards fire burned the south yards and the entire International complex. Seven months later the International opened in new quarters 1936 - 131 carloads of cattle, 31 of sheep and 30 carloads of hogs were exhibited at the International 1936 - Artificial insemination of cattle was first commercialized 1937 - Regional Swine Breeding Lab founded 1942 - Greatest sheep numbers on record - 56 million 1946 - First Heritability estimates for beef cattle published

S&S Po r t r a i t Co l l e c t i o n Pa g e 34 1946 - First Bourbon Beef Show...junior and open show for market stock 1946 - National Barrow Show created by Carroll Plager and Hormel Packing launched change from ‘lard-type’ to ‘meat - type’ hogs 1950’s - Dwarfism plagued the beef industry 1951 - First successful transfer of a bovine embryo was made, but it would be 20 years before commercialization 1952 - First successful conception using frozen semen was accomplished 1952 - Hazel and Kline, Iowa State, developed fat back probing of live hogs 1953 - DNA chemical structure…genetic code 1954 - Bruner established Swine Evaluation Station at Ohio State University 1955 - Virginia forms first Beef Cattle Improvement Assn (MAST) 1955 - American Sheep Producers Council formed 1955 - Texas breeders establish performance Registry International and added Certified Meat Sires program in 1961 1956 - Kentucky State Fair moves to new $38 million facility on 357 acre site south of the city 1956 - Iowa Swine Testing Station established at Iowa State University 1960 - Livestock shipments shift from rail to trucks…slaughter plants follow feed lots…not stock yard 1964 - Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) offers first live cattle contract 1965 - Evaluation of retail yield of beef carcasses was enabled by USDA’s adoption of yield grading 1966-1967 - There were 66 French Charolias bulls in Canadian quarantine stations bought by North American cattlemen. In following years, 13 ‘new’ breeds from Europe’s mainland came to the US 1967 - First pork carcass to yield 50% ham and loin at Iowa Spring Barrow Show 1968 - Beef Improvement Federation formed 1968 - Cattle Fax created by ANCA to gather and disseminate economic useful data to cattlemen 1968 - Beef referendum passes on the third try with a 79% ‘yes’ vote 1969 - The 1969 International Grand Champion Angus bull, Blacklock McHenry 13 Y (Great Northern) sealed the ‘bigger beef cattle’ movement in the show rings. 1971 - Union Stock Yards in Chicago closes after 106 years of operation 1974 - National Swine Improvement Lab founded 1974 - First North American Livestock Exposition held at Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center 1975 - Last Chicago International Live Stock Show held 1977 - Saddle and Sirloin portrait gallery moved to Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center, Louisville, KY 1978 - NALE became the North American International Livestock Exposition…NAILE 1978 - Dr. Hilton M. Briggs, president South Dakota State University, was the first to have his portrait hung in the Louisville gallery 1986 - US Sheep industry declined to 9.9 million 1987 - Expected Progeny Differences (EPD’s) gained industry-wide acceptance as a selection tool. 2003 - NAILE publishes the History of The Saddle and Sirloin Club in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the club and its world famous gallery of industry notables

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