Paris Exposition Universelle photograph album : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for Special Collections.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--Photographs.

France.

Genre:

photograph albums.

Photographs.

Manuscripts, French -- 20th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Zephyr Used and Rare Books (Vancouver, WA), 2024.

Physical Description:

1 volume (48 pages) ; 28 x 31 cm

Production:

France ; Venice, Italy ; United Kingdom, 1900-1901.

Summary:

This album contains 183 albumen photographs of the Paris Exposition Universelle and other travel destinations taken by an unidentified couple in 1900 and 1901 in France, the United Kingdom, and possibly Switzerland. The first portion of the volume contains photographs of the Exposition Universelle (p. 1-31). Numerous structures from the Exposition are photographed. Those identified include the Porte Monumentale (p. 1), Eiffel Tower (p. 1), Petit Palais (p. 2), Pont Alexandre III (p. 2), Palais de Électricité (p. 3-4), Palais Lumineux (p. 7), the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company pavilion (p. 10), and several country pavilions including the Italian (p. 4), German (p. 4), Spanish (p. 4), United States (p. 5), Hungarian (p. 5), Belgian (p. 6), Chinese (p. 9), Algerian (p. 10), Moroccan (p. 13), and Greek (p. 14) pavilions. There are additionally numerous photographs of the Vieux Paris portion of the Exposition (p. 28-31) and what appears to be the Swiss Village, which included a recreation of a Swiss mountainside (p. 22-28). The latter portion of the album contains other travel photographs including those from the Alps (p. 36); Venice (p. 37); the Crystal Casino in Nice, France (p. 38); Staffa Island, Scotland (p. 40); Forth Bridge, UK (p. 41), and Mont Saint Michel (p. 43-45). There is additionally a photograph of the carriage of King George V and Queen Mary (p. 38), and several family photographs, likely of the volume's creators (p. 39). The volume's creators also seem to appear in several of the Exposition and travel photographs.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for Special Collections.

Cited as:

Paris Exposition Universelle Photograph Album (Ms. Coll. 1601). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1451845851