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| ID Number: | PA00-0002 |
| Description: | Visitors listen to a poet |
| Country or State: | Switzerland |
| Year: | 01.02.1939 |
| Face Value: | 20 Ct. - Swiss centime |
| Series: | Swiss Exhibition |
| Perforation: | comb 11¾ |
| Printing: | Photogravure and Recess |
| Dimensions (B x H): | 41 x 26 mm |
| Emission: | 30,800,000 |
| Catalog Number: | Michel CH 336 Stamp Number CH 251 Yvert et Tellier CH 327 Stanley Gibbons CH 392B AFA number CH 346 Unificato CH 327 Zumstein CH 220 |
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The fourth Swiss National Exhibition from 1939, called Landi 39, found in Zurich and lasted from 6 May to 29 October. The exhibition was originally planned for 1933, then it was postponed to 1936 and 1938 and finally held in 1939. The governing body was assembled in February 1936, and the actual preparatory work took just under two and a half years. Exhibition venues were various places and meadows at the lower lake basin of the Lake zurich. The overall management of Landi lay with the architect and politician Armin Meili. The leading architect was the Zurich native Hans Hofmann, heinrich Oetiker was in overall management of the buildings. 49,500 people attended the opening ceremony on 9 May 1939. The opening speech was given by the Federal President Philipp Etter. In addition to numerous concerts, theatrical performances and various attractions, the Landi also attracted the Federal Costume Festival, the Swiss «Landi-Swings» as well as a Lake Night Festival with large fireworks on 23 August. |