Quick List Info
Dates Open - April 15 to November 12, 1900. Open 212 days, Open Sundays. Official inauguration April 14.
Attendance - 39,027,177 entries paid; , Total Visitors 50,860,801, including auxiliary site at Vincennes. Total visitors also included staff.
International Participants - 42 nations and 25 colonies.
Total Cost - 119,225,707 francs ($18,746,186). Expenses were covered by France and the City of Paris.
Site Acreage - Main site 267 acres, Vincennes annex 276 acres (Olympics held there plus other exhibits) . Total acreage 543.
Sanction and Type - Prior to the Bureau of International
Exhibitions. Paris 1900 would be considered a Universal scale registered event today.
Ticket Cost - Adult Admission Price, NA. Two to five tickets required some days.
Photo top center: Pavilions of the Nations and bridges, Italian Pavilion on the left, at the Paris Universelle Exposition Internationale, Detroit Publishing Company, 1900. Courtesy Wikipedia Commons. Column Top: Image of a panaramic view of Paris 1900 exposition, Lucien Baviac, 1900. Courtesy Library of Congress.

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