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Panthéon de la Guerre : panorama of the World War and its heroes ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio ND2880 .P3 1932
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.)
- Standardized Title:
- Panthéon de la Guerre.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Panthéon de la Guerre.
- World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war--Exhibitions.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Panoramas--France--Paris.
- Panoramas.
- France--Paris.
- Genre:
- Advertisements -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Zinman, Michael (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 16 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
- Other Title:
- Subtitle on cover: cyclorama of the World War and its heroes
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Washington ; Chicago : Published by The Stockbridge Press Incorporated, [1932]
- Notes:
- Illustrated cover.
- Title on cover reads: "Panthéon de la Guerre, cyclorama of the World War and its heroes".
- The folded color plate is 9.25 feet long, with text on verso.
- "Copyright, 1932, by Frank Parker Stockbridge"--title page.
- "The largest painting in the world, 402 feet long--45 feet high, painted by twenty-eight famous French artists, assisted by more than one hundred other artists under the direction of Pierre Carrier-Belleuse and Auguste-Francois Gorguet and containing six thousand life-size portraits of World War heroes and leaders representing all the allied nations ... with a correct landscape of the battlefields of France and Belgium as they appeared in 1914-1918, reproduced in full color with complete descriptive text ..."--title page.
- Advertisement on p. 16.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy has a label that reads "Chicago, A Century of Progress Exposition, 1933" affixed across lower portion of the front cover, covering the original text.
- RBC copy has original printed mailing envelope, numbered 30254.
- OCLC:
- 8868180
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