Visitors under the base of the tower of Eiffel. In the back the Trocadero (build for the exposition of 1878). Photograph by J. Kerr, Edinburgh
The exposition of 1900 in Paris took place at two connected areas. At the Marsfield with the tower of Eiffel and the hall of machines build for the exposition of 1889 and with the colonial exposition in front of the Trocadero build in 1878.
Along the Seine with the "Rue des Nations" to the "Esplanade des Invalides" and over the "Pont D'Alexandre III." to "Grand Palais" and the "Petit Palais".
At the base of the tower of Eiffel. Photograph by J. Kerr, Edinburgh
"...And now the foreigners: The blonde German with chapeau mou, the vivacious Italian with his Calabreser put oblique on one ear, Old England, bumptious with checked trousers, Turks and Bulgarian with red flat, the smart Bosnian, the Greek in his knitting costume, the sunburnt Arabian with turban and wide burnus, the negro from Algeria and Dahomei, the slightly coughing Tokinese with outstanding cheek-bones, who does not be compatible with
the rough climate of the french capital, although the thermometer shows 20 grades in the shadow;...
...-who counts all the nations, call the names, who comes together here so hospitable."
Erich Körner, "von der pariser Weltausstellung", Illustrirte Zeitung, 3. Mai 1900
