Report of the Commissioner-General for the United States to the International universal exposition, Paris, 1900. February 28, 1901, read, referred to the Committee on Printing, and ordered to be printed
This is a 1901 United States government report by the Commission to the Paris Exposition of 1900, written by Ferdinand Wythe Peck and printed in Washington for official circulation. The photographs are rotated black-and-white plates of exhibit cases, machinery halls and display panels, with no captions beyond their printed section labels, so a designer can see how late-nineteenth-century trade displays were arranged and lit. The shelf of glass cases and the crowded panels of tools and electrical gear show dense, orderly cataloguing that could suggest exhibition layout or museum-style grids.
