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ACHAC collection, 1880-ca. 1975

Title: ACHAC collection, 1880-ca. 1975

A consortium of scholars and researchers devoted to exploring and promoting discussion of race, iconography, and the colonial and post-colonial periods of Africa and Europe. The ACHAC collection documents the influence of French colonialism, both on Africa and on France itself, as represented in images produced and distributed through the media of French popular culture as well as in the personal photographs of European residents of the African colonies. Some materials concern Belgian and German colonies.

ArchivalResource: 32 linear feet; (31 boxes, 30 flatfiles, 5 rolls)

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa970031 View

Carlu, Jean, 1900-1997. Installation photographs of René Herbst's designs for 1930s expositions.

Title: Installation photographs of René Herbst's designs for 1930s expositions. 1931-1939.

The collection documents the realized installations of René Herbst's designs for 1930s expositions. Included are installation photographs of the Section de la métallurgie Française at the 1931 Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris and the Section des arts et métiers graphiques at the 1937 Paris Exposition internationale, as well as a photocollage of a display labeled Comité des Forges de France, possibly related to the 1939 New York World's Fair.

ArchivalResource: 1 album ( 42 photographs) : gelatin silver ; album 28 x 23 cm.; photographs 23.9 x 17.8 cm.41 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 29.7 x 39.7 cm. and 18 x 24 cm.1 photocollage : gelatin silver, relief halftone ; 22 x 38.4 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/664396006 View

World's fair and exposition collection, 1882-1985.

Title: World's fair and exposition collection, 1882-1985.

This collection is an amalgamation of graphic and textual materials relating to fairs, expositions, and Olympic Games held in or proposed for western Europe or the United States during the last quarter of the 19th- and throughout the 20th-century.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.5 linear feet) and 1 oversize portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85189567 View

Online Archive of California. World Fairs and Expositions collection, ca. 1893-1950.

Title: World Fairs and Expositions collection, ca. 1893-1950.

An assembled collection of World's fairs ephemera and memorabilia, mostly from the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exhibition, SF, and the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, SF. Also includes a small amount of material from the 1939 New York World's Fair, the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the 1931 Exposition Coloniale Internationale de Paris.

ArchivalResource: 6 cartons.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56560607 View

Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris (1931). Petition, 1931.

Title: Petition, 1931.

A petition requesting that the exhibition of Cambodian art at the Trocadero be preserved, signed by Raffaelli, Rodin, Van Rysselberghe, Carriere, Steinlen and others.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81610177 View

Congrès de la standardisation des produits coloniaux (1931 : Paris, France). Congrès de la standardisation des prouits coloniaux : .... : rapport de la Chambre de commerce de Nantes.

Title: Congrès de la standardisation des prouits coloniaux : .... : rapport de la Chambre de commerce de Nantes. [1931].

ArchivalResource: 12 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/298325244 View

Belknap Collection for the Performing Arts. Belknap Collection, Miscellaneous 1890- : World's Fairs and Expositions.

Title: Belknap Collection, Miscellaneous 1890- : World's Fairs and Expositions.

This collection contains advertisements, souvenir programs, broadsides, press releases, clippings and photographs from various World's Fairs in the United States, Canada and Europe, the Florida State Sub-tropical Exposition (Jacksonville, 1890), the Cotton States and International Exposition (Atlanta, 1895), and the Great German Exhibition (Düsseldorf, 1926). Some clippings include obituaries of important people from previous World's Fairs.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (1 lin. ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60742724 View

Jacquier, A.,. Une promenade a l'Exposition coloniale Paris, Vincennes, 1931 : photograph album [graphic].

Title: Une promenade a l'Exposition coloniale Paris, Vincennes, 1931 : photograph album [graphic]. [1931-1932]

Photograph album, containing amateur snapshots taken at the Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris (1931), together with some photographs of the demolition of the fairground buildings in late 1932.

ArchivalResource: 1 album (135 photographic prints on 35 leaves) : b&w ; 26 x 34 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/747502701 View

Choveaux, R. Views of international expositions of the 1930s.

Title: Views of international expositions of the 1930s. 1931-1937.

Collection consists of photographs taken by Choveaux, an amateur French photographer, of three of the major French and Belgian international expositions of the 1930s, as well as views of important French events of the 1930s, and various Parisian landmarks.

ArchivalResource: 15 photographic prints : silver gelatin ; 28 x 33 cm. or smaller.1 v. (48 silver gelatin prints) : 26 x 34 x 3 cm.185 photographic prints : glass, stereograph ; 15 x 7 cm.1 photographic negative : glass ; 7 x 9 cm.20 photographic prints : plastic film positive, stereograph ; 13 x 6 cm.63 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/416939703 View

Alfred E. Heller collection of world's fair material, 1851-2005

Title: Alfred E. Heller collection of world's fair material 1851-2005

The collection consists of photographs, picture postcards, printed ephemera and other printed material collected by Alfred E. Heller documenting international fairs and exhibitions held around the world between 1851 and 2005. Photographs, picture postcards, and printed ephemera depict the locations and attractions of individual fairs and exhibitions, particularly those held in Europe and America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Highlights include: photographs of the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 taken by Hippolyte Auguste Collard and photographs of the Exposition universelle de 1889 (Paris, France) taken by the Neurdein Brothers. Files of printed material relating to late-twentieth century fairs and exhibitions document aspects of the planning, promotion and publicity associated with each. Extensive documentation can be found for the Lousiana World Exposition (1984: New Orleans, Louisiana), Expo 86 (1986: Vancouver, British Columbia), Expo '88 (1988: Brisbane, Queensland), Exposición Universal de 1992 (1992: Seville, Spain), Expo '98 (1998: Lisbon, Portugal), and Expo 2000 (2000: Hannover, Germany), among others.

ArchivalResource: 44.0 linear feet (47 boxes) + 1 broadside folder.

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.worldsfair View