Panorama from the moving boardwalk at the Paris Exposition
The Paris Exposition in July 1900 taken from the moving platform that was put on the boardwalk for the Exposition. People run on the moving boardwalk. Street vendors. National pavilions for the Paris Exposition are in the BG. Sign:"Champ de Mars Porte Rapp" Children fight in the corner. Pan taken from a bridge of a large building, trees. People walking.
From the Paper Print Collection at Library of Congress
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).