Quick List Info
Dates Open - May 1 - November 10, 1878, including Sundays. Open 194 days.
Attendance - Paid Attendance 12,623,847, Total Visitors 13,209,909, Total Attendance (including staff) - 16,159,719.
International Participants - 44 nations and 22 colonies .
Total Cost - 55,389,961 francs ($11,054,330).
Site Acreage - 192 acres of Champ de Mars on one bank of the Seine and Trocadero Hill on the other.
Sanction and Type - Prior to the Bureau of International
Exhibitions. Paris 1878 would be considered a medium scale registered event today.
Ticket Cost - Adult Admission Price (1 franc) $0.20, Per Capita Price - $0.191 (Total visitors), $0.156 (Total attendance). Price of season ticket 100 francs.
Photo top center: Chromolithograph of the fair grounds, Fougere, 1878. Courtesy Wikipedia Commons. Column Top: Henri Gifford's balloon poster in front of the Tuileries, Paris 1878. Courtesy Library of Congress.

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