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Exposition Universelle, Paris, France, 1889:

1040 PZ. Photochrom print by Photoglob Zürich, between 1890 and 1900, 1889.

Sifting through the photochroms of the Paris Expos and correcting the dates. Photoglob Zürich started issuing photochroms in 1889, the first set with motifs from Switzerland but quickly branching out into other European cities. The PZ numbers which eventually appeared gold-embossed were still missing on the early prints. The earliest prints have numbers in the 1000s, these are the prints from the 1889 Paris World’s Fair. The prints from the 1900 World’s Fair (as the LoC has labeled most of them) have PZ numbers in the 17000s. A batch of 1900 prints to follow…

From the Photochrom Prints Collection at the Library of Congress
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