Exhibition BERLIN 1896 Gewerbe Ausstellung GER KOLONIAL

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Used colorfully illustrated postcard from the Industrial Exposition held in Berlin in 1896. " Gruss aus BERLIN! " above street scene with " Deutsche Kolonial - Ausstellung " beneath view on right and " Berliner Gewerbe Ausstellung " beneath on left on front. Back has APOLDA 12.8.96 1-2N. cancel at bottom left, BERLIN N.O.18 12.8 96 cancel atop green 5 REICHSPOST stamp at top right. Condition is good but for bottom right corner on front is creased, other corners only moderately worn. Additional scans on request. Check out our otherauctions - we will combine your other winning bids with this shipment. “… (a) dispute arose about the exhibition ground. A first decision was made for an empty area at the Lietzensee… But then adnts for the Treptow Park south of Berlin as the exhibition place could attract the press to their side, although Treptow had a worse infrastructure. Beside other arguments this was done with anti Semite emotions: The area at the Lietzensee was owned by Jews. A collection was arranged which was only usable for an exhibition in Treptow Park . The capital provided the ground without fee but with the restriction that no tree of the 1888 installed park had to have cut down and that the area has to return into the original state. Tfore not only the buildings had to been build around the vegetation, but the buildings must had been destroyed after the end of the fair. Visitors of the exhibition had to move through the ugly industry area East of Berlin . At northwest wind factory exhaustion gases were blown over the park… Of nearly three hundred small and medium buildings the fair park was made, but not all of them were ready at the start date... Emperor Wilhelm II. arrived to the fair at that day with his steam yacht " Alexandria " and visited the most important exhibits. The exhibition was opened from the first of May until the fifteenth of October daily until midnight. This was possible through the complete electrical illumination, installed by Siemens, but which partly failured for days… the Berlin citizen were first widely introduced to the Banana. Architecture samples from Barock, Romanic, Renaissance, Byzance, Bayern and much more were presented within and by the exposition buildings, t was a tobacco museum by Loeser and Wolff, a museum for traditional costumes, a Northpole and an Alpes panorama, a scenery town Cairo, and the longest lense telescope of the world… the exhibitors made a deficit at the end. The Berlin Trade Exhibition of 1896 was the last of its kind. Beside of the enhancement of the infrastructure in Treptow and of the Archenhold observatory the experience had remained, that a permanent exhibition area for Berlin was needed. [http://www.surveyor.in-berlin.de/berlin/1896/TradeExhibition1896.html] Regarding Payment: Ebay's new policy allows Sellers to accept only credit payments. However, I will continue to accept alternative methods of payment. If you have any questions, please contact me. We DO NOT accept EUROS. Regarding Mailing: This item will be packaged in a protective sleeve and cardboard and shipped upon receipt of payment. U.S. buyers to pay $1.00 for First Class USPS shipping. Overseas buyers to pay $2.00 for Airmail Letter Post. PLEASE NOTE : Tracking is not available for 1st Class Mail, both Domestic and Foreign, or Priority Mail International Flat Rate Envelopes. We can offer the following services for additional mailing fees : International Priority Mail (w available) - $12.95 Certificate of Mailing 1.10 Registered 10.80 Return Receipt 2.20 Insurance (Requires Declared Value on Customs Form) $ 0 - $ 50.00 $2.45 $ 50 - $100 $3.35 $100 - $200 $4.30 $200 - $300 $5.25 RE SHIPPING OVERSEAS: Tracking not available for 1st Class Mail or Priority Mail International Envelope. We offer the following ... read more

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