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[Ministry of War exhibition building, Paris Exposition, 1889] – Historic Photograph Print

[Ministry of War exhibition building, Paris Exposition, 1889], [1889] — historic photograph
[Ministry of War exhibition building, Paris Exposition, 1889], [1889]. Historic photograph from the World's Fairs collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Ministry of War exhibition building, Paris Exposition, 1889] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This albumen print shows a building erected for the Ministry of War at the Exposition Universelle of 1889, the Paris fair held on the Champ de Mars to mark the centenary of the French Revolution. Government ministries and private firms alike built pavilions along the fairgrounds, and the military exhibit gave the state a chance to show its power in a setting that drew millions of visitors. The print also records the look of the fair's architecture, which was crowded with pavilions and fountains in the shadow of the newly completed Eiffel Tower. Albumen paper, made by coating sheets with egg white and silver salts, was the standard photographic printing method of the 1880s.

Created / published[1889]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreAlbumen prints 1880-1890.
SubjectsExposition universelle de 1889--(Paris, France)--Buildings. Exhibition buildings--France--Paris--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,274 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-185946

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