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New York World's Fair

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Swift Premium Meats
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The Food Zone (Zone 3)
1939 New York World's Fair

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Architects: Skidmore & Owings


Here the manufacturing processes for Swift's products, including Swift's Premium Frankfurters, were demonstrated.

Other exhibits included information dealing with recipes and the use of inexpensive cuts of meat, the relationship between the raiser of livestock and the consumer, and a marionette show dramatizing typical scenes in retail shops and the latest in merchandising ideas.


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Workers package bacon inside the Swift pavilion.
Workers package bacon inside the Swift pavilion.

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Photo EM-Swift-01, courtesy Irene Nelson. Image captured from movie shot by her father Sea Captain Erik Manvall (1902-1987) and transferred to DVD by Johnny Riert (residents of Sweden).