1937 Paris Metropolitan

Transportation map for the 1937 Paris Exposition Internationale.

This guide to the Paris Metro was published in 1937 as a handy reference for visitors attending the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne. Held amid a flailing economy and growing global tension, the world exposition confronted the duality of fascism vs. democracy, communism vs. capitalism, and progressive vs. conservative art and science. Soviet and German pavilions faced off from one another across the Trocadero, each topped with their respective iconography only a few years before World War II would consume much of both nations.

Little of these ideological conflicts can be seen on the map, which offers a clearly legible outline of the Paris Metro when unfolded. The verso provides a plan of the exposition grounds and fare information in four different languages (French, German, English, and Italian).

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