{"title":"Travel Guides and Brochures","description":"Travel guides, city brochures, and tourist promotional print from the first half of the twentieth century. These objects fix a city or region at a single moment in time, often richer as a record through the advertisements of local hoteliers, garage owners, and couturiers than through the tourist text itself. The typography, illustrations, and photography follow the graphic conventions of the interwar period and the postwar years, placing the printed material in a recognisable visual tradition. The booklets and brochures were issued by tourist boards, local publishers, and urban trade associations, and circulated in hotel lobbies, kiosks, and bookshops.\n","products":[{"product_id":"toeristisch-gidsje-metz-moselle-jaren-1930","title":"Tourist booklet Metz Moselle 1930s Extension Touristique Française","description":"\u003cp\u003eSmall French tourist booklet for the city of Metz, published in Paris by L'Extension Touristique Française, 3 Cité Trévise. The booklet dates from the 1930s and combines a brief description of the city with advertisements from local Metz merchants and black-and-white photographs by Photo Weber. The text covers the history of Metz as an ancient Gallic settlement of the Mediomatrici, later Roman capital of Austrasia under Clovis, its rail connections, and its principal monuments, including the cathedral Saint-Étienne, the Palais de Justice and the Monument au Général Mangin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe advertisements sketch a portrait of a city returned to France after 1918. Hôtel Royal and Hôtel Régina announce two hundred rooms with running water, Garage Moderne represents Citroën with thirty boxes and two hundred and fifty cars, R. Jager runs the Zeiss outlet, Louis Watrinet supplies cameras and cinema equipment to amateurs, and the Dancing Novelty in the rue Nexirue promises cocktails and a Sunday orchestra. The booklet closes with a table of kilometric distances from Metz to Aix-les-Bains, Reims, Strasbourg and Vichy, and an announcement of the new colour Plan de Metz and the Guide Tricolore de Metz.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56748888916292,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/toeristisch-gidsje-metz-moselle-jaren-1930.png?v=1778666567"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/collections\/13.png?v=1779182721","url":"https:\/\/thecollectionist.nl\/en\/collections\/travel-guides-and-brochures.oembed","provider":"The Collectionist","version":"1.0","type":"link"}