Sentence examples for colonial exposition from inspiring English sources
1937 Ribbentrop Reiterates Appeal Speaking today [March 1] at the annual spring fair at Leipzig which this year includes a colonial exposition, although today there are no German colonies, Herr Von Ribbentrop, German Ambassador in London, appealed to the powers which now hold the former German colonial territory under a mandate "voluntarily to make the generous gesture which we expect of them".
The building was designed for the 1931 Colonial Exposition and until recently housed the Museum of African Art.
This museum's building was designed for the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition, and its elaborate murals are unabashed celebrations of French imperialism.
He became the first reigning Vietnamese monarch to visit Europe when he attended a colonial exposition at Marseille in 1922 and advocated an autonomous Vietnam associated with France.
In 2007, a national immigration museum opened in the Porte Dorée, an Art Deco palace in eastern Paris which was built for a colonial exposition in 1931.
While the architecture of the 1931 International Colonial Exposition ["Colonial Fantasies: When the Empire Has No Clothes" by Herbert Muschamp, June 25] is long gone, visitors to Paris can still judge for themselves the merits of the "colonial" artworks that were exhibited there.
So when the idea of antiquing caught on in the United States — the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia made Colonial furniture popular — much of the great old furniture was already there.
He had also been promised that he would represent Madagascar at the 1937 Universal Exposition in Paris, but in May 1937 the colonial authorities informed him that he would not be part of the island's delegation.
He served as Washington Territory's representative at the 1885 1886 North Central & South American Exposition in New Orleans; he also took exhibits to London's Colonial and Indian Exposition after the New Orleans fair closed.
Savannah Garden Exposition.
