Scene in the Swiss village at the Paris Exposition

Scene in the Swiss village at the Paris Exposition 

The Swiss village at the 1900 Paris Exposition. People walk through a street of traditional Swiss houses. Man carries pots on his back. Men and women in traditional Swiss clothing. Cows. Women in Swiss clothing dance, men watch, one man dances, man plays accordion. 

The Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from April 15 to November 12, 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next. The fair, visited by nearly 50 million, displayed many machines, inventions, and architecture that are now nearly universally known, including the Ferris wheel, Russian nesting dolls, diesel engines, talking films, escalators, and the telegraphone (the precursor to modern-day sound recording). 

From the Paper Print Collection at Library of Congress