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Lot n° 182

EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE, PARIS, 1900

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PHOTOGRAPHIES Set of four boxes containing forty-nine stereoscopic photographs on glass plates documenting the 1900 Exposition Universelle and the 1905 visit of King Alfonso XIII of Spain to Paris. Guillemot & Cie and A. Lumières & ses fils. It was during this visit that, on the night of May 31st to June 1st, the procession of Alphonse XIII and President Émile Loubet narrowly escaped a bomb attack on the corner of rue de Rivoli and rue de Rohan.