This archival footage captures daily life in the Kansas City Stockyards over five decades, from 1930 to 1980. Compiled in 1992 by Pete Stipetic, the film documents the scale, movement, and energy of what was once one of the nation’s most important livestock markets.

The scenes offer a rare, unfiltered look at the people, infrastructure, and operations that defined the Stockyards at their peak, providing important context for the history of the Livestock Exchange Building and the district it anchored.