Globe Céleste

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Photo: Seine with Eiffel Tower and the Globe Céleste
Photo: Seine with Eiffel Tower and the Globe Céleste
Post card of Suchard (Swiss chocolate brand)
Post card of Suchard (Swiss chocolate brand)

The Globe Céleste was like the Eiffel Tower an ikon of the Expo 1900 in Paris. It depicts a sky globe.

It was "[...] catered for armchair space-travellers: spectators leaned back in easy chairs while panoramas depicting the solar system were rolled past." [1]

[edit] External links and Referenzen

  1. ^ Google Books: Maxwell, Anne - Colonial Photography and Exhibitions, 1999, ISBN 0718502299 p.25 below


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