Swift & Company plant, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1915. Postcard showing a bird's eye view of the industrial plant and surrounding area. Swift & Company is a meat packaging and processing company founded in 1855 by Gustavus Franklin Swift. Chicago's status as a major railway hub between the Great Plains and the markets on the East Coast saw the city develop into the centre of the livestock and meat industry in the US.
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