44 1900 illus newspapers PARIS WORLDS FAIR Color Prints

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Please visit our EBAY STORE at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction: /Steve-Goldman-HISTORICAL-NEWSPAPERS_W0QQsspagenameZL2222QQtZkm SEE PHOTO----- Bound volume containing 44 issues of an ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Sunday ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENTs to a NEWSPAPER, Le Petit Journal (Paris, FRANCE) dated between Feb 25 and Dec 31, 1900. Each of these 44 newspaper Sunday magazines have 8 pages which are 17" x 12" in size. The newspaper Sunday magazine has GORGEOUS COLOR COVER ILLUSTRATIONS (front and back covers). The newspapers have over 35 full page COLOR ILLUSTRATIONs of the PAVILLIONS of each country participating in the 1900 Paris EXPOSITION (Paris World's Fair or the Exposition Universelle ). T are also color prints of the opening as well as various ceremonies at the Paris exposition of 1900. This is the BEST LOCAL display newspaper coverage of the 1900 Paris World's Fair that I have seen !! The Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a world's fair held in Paris , France , to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next. The style that was universally present in the Exposition was Art Nouveau . Details The exhibition lasted from 15 April until 12 November 1900. More than 50 million people attended the exhibition (a world record at the time) , it turned a profit for the French government of 7,000,000 Francs . The fair included more than 76,000 exhibitors and covered 1.12 square kilometres of Paris. A number of Paris' most noted structures were built for the Exposition, including the Gare de Lyon , the Gare d'Orsay (now the Musée d'Orsay ), the Pont Alexandre III , the Grand Palais , La Ruche , and the Petit Palais . The first line of the Paris Metro also began operation to coincide with the Exposition. Although completed in just 18 months, it was nevertheless slightly late, taking its first paying passengers to the Ancien Palais du Trocadéro site on 19 July 1900. The Salle des Machines ("Machines' Room") was later turned into an indoor cycling track, the Vélodrome d'hiver , which became infamous during Vichy France . Part of the Exposition was the Second Olympic Games , which were spread over five months. The games also marked the first participation by female athletes and, in such sports as tennis, football (soccer), polo, rowing and tug of war, teams were multinational. Achievements The Exposition Universelle was w talking films and escalators were first publicized, and w Campbell's Soup was awarded a gold medal (an image of which still appears on its label). At the Exposition Rudolf Diesel exhibited his diesel engine , running on peanut oil . Brief films of excerpts from opera and ballet are apparently the first films exhibited publicly with projection of both image and recorded sound. The Exposition also featured many panoramic paintings and extensions of the panorama technique, such as the Cinéorama , Mareorama , and Trans-Siberian Railway Panorama . The centrepiece of the Palais de l'Optique, was the 1.25 m (49.2 inch) diameter "Great Exposition Refractor" . This telescope is the largest refracting telescope built. The optical tube assembly was 60 meters long and 1.5 meters in diameter and was fixed in place due to its mass. Light from the sky was sent into the tube by a movable 2-meter mirror. The Paris Expo included a "Negro exposition" ( Exposé nègre ), during which photos by Frances Benjamin Johnston , a friend of Booker T. Washington , of his black students of the Hampton Institute were presented. Partly organized by Booker Washington and Edward Du Bois , this exhibition aimed at showing Afro-Americans ' positive contributions to American society. Unfortunately, at a time when lynchings were peaking, a Human Zoo diorama was also present at the exposition, entitled 'Living in Madagascar'. The Finnish Pavilion at the Exposition was designed by the architectural firm of Gesellius, Lindgr... read more

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