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Exposition National Suisse, Geneva, 1896

 

The 1896 Swiss National Exposition opened on May 1 and closed on October 15. It had 2.3 million visitors, but ended in the red. For the first time in Switzerland, a national exposition was supplemented by an amusement park (Parc de Plaisance). The Village Suisse boasted an artificial mountain representing the Bernese Obeland, 56 houses, and 3,523 inhabitants dressed in the country's most diverse costumes, while the Village Noir offered 230 imported Sudanese who lived in mud huts for the summer.

Drs. Thijs Gras kindly sent this scan of the cover of a souvenir booklet for Alexandre Lion's exhibit at the exposition. The image is also available from the Bibliothèque de Genève. I have not been successful in finding any other images of the incubator baby exhibit.

Map of the exposition.

Overhead view of the exposition.


Dr. Alexandre Lion
The Lion Incubator
Oeuvre Maternelle des Couveuses d'Enfants, Paris
Oeuvre Maternelle des Couveuses d'Enfants, New York, 1897
La Maternité "Lion de Nice" pour Enfants Nés Avant Terme ou Débiles, by Dr. Ciaudo, 1895.
Les Couveuses pour Enfants, Gazette Médicale de Paris, 1900
Couveuses d'Enfants, La Patrie, 1897
Baby Incubators, The Strand Magazine, 1896, by James Walter Smith
Human Infant Incubation: A True Fairy-Tale of Modern Science from Leslie's Weekly, 1897
The Saving of Human Life, Maternité Lion in NYC, The Literary Digest, 1898
Immature Infants in France, from The Lancet, January 16, 1897, page 196.
Alexandre Lion's Incubator Charities in Europe (1894–1898)
Oeuvre Maternelle des Couveuses d'Enfants , Paris Institute, Booklet Version #1 (appears to be ~1896)
Oeuvre Maternelle des Couveuses d'Enfants , Paris Institute, Booklet Version #2 (appears to be ~1901)
Pamphlet from Alexander Lion's exhibit at the 1898 exhibition in Torino, Italy. (PDF supplied by Dr. Thijs Gras, Amsterdam)
Couveuses d'Enfants - La Patrie, 1897
Maternité Lion at the Lyon Exposition Universelle - Le Monde Illustré, 1894
Maternité Lion at the Paris Exposition Universelle (1900)
Maternité Lion at the Exposition Internationale de l'Est de la France, Nancy, France, 1909
Maternité Lion at the Lyon Exposition Universelle et Coloniale, 1894
Maternité Lion at the Turin L'Esposizione Generale Italiana, 1898
Maternité Lion at the Liege Exposition Universelle et Internationale, 1905
Maternité Lion at the Brussels Exposition Universelle et Internationale, 1910
Maternité Lion at the Marseille Exposition Internationale d'Électricité, 1908
Maternité Lion at the Esposizione Generale Italiana of 1898, Turin, Italy
Maternité Lion in Barcelona, 1902

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