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Huge De Luxe Album from Haiti's 1949 World's Fair

Title: Exposition Internationale 1949-1950
Author: **
Description: [31] pp. Illustrated with 5 color plates (including map), 4 sepia plates, and numerous photographic plates, including several in color. 23½x18½, original blue leather, cover stamped in gilt, red endpapers, spiral-bound. One of 200 copies. First Edition.Magnificent commemorative album from Haiti's first and only world's fair with: the coat of arms of Port-au-Prince and a large map of Haiti, both in color; architectural renderings in color and sepia; photographic plates in color and black and white of government buildings, La Citadelle and other scenic and agricultural views; large portrait of President Dumarsais Estimé, portraits of the Comité de l'Exposition, Toussaint and other historical figures; plan of the exposition. A. F. Schmiedigen Associates designed the Pavilions.
Heading: (Haiti)Place Published: Port-au-Prince
Publisher: [Exposition Committee]
Date Published: 1949