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Exposition Coloniale Internationale de Paris Photograph Album, 1931.
Bernath Mss 243LOCAL
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Title:

Exposition Coloniale Internationale de Paris Photograph Album, 1931

Creator/Contributor:

Online Archive of California

Abstract:

Album contains 94 black and white snapshots of the French Colonial Exposition on the outskirts of Paris in 1931. The exposition displayed the spoils of the French colonies, including indigenous peoples, traditional crafts, and reproductions of buildings. Images include buildings and constructed villages of African, Asian and Caribbean colonies, including Guadeloupe, Martinique, Madagascar, Algeria, Cochinchine (Vietnam). There are also some family photos and shots around town, several photos of an important clergyman and many people in front of a cathedral, and others of what appears to be Reims Cathedral.

Date:

1931 (issued)

Subject:

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France -- Pictorial works
France
Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris (1931)
Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris.

Note:

Use of the collection is unrestricted.
Use governed by UCSB Special Collections policy.
Purchase, 2006.
Cite as: [Identification of item], Exposition Coloniale Internationale de Paris Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 243. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Type:

Photographs.
photographs.
photograph albums.
Pictorial works.
Photographs.
Photographies.
Albums photographiques.

Physical Description:

.2 linear ft.

Language:

English

Identifier:

Bernath Mss 243LOCAL

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

Use of the collection is unrestricted.
Use governed by UCSB Special Collections policy.