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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.