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Hello, Mr. Louchez
Your PDF is very interesting!

I'm conducting research about prefabricated buildings produced in Norway for the Norwegian market and for export, from 1870-1920.
My main focus are related to "M. Thams & Co" and "Jacob Digre", but to get confirmation about their production I need to ...

Hello.
I just found some amazing pictures from the 1889 Fair showing the rear side of the Norwegian pavilion and a picture of the front facade of the Dahl's Pure Milk Syndicate -pavilion, also produced by Thams. What a marvelous treat :D

M. Thams & Co - Norwegian Pavilion, rear side

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The photo archives of University of Bergen, Marcus have a picture from Glücq's catalogue.
It shows the official Norwegian exhibition area designed by the official Norwegian architect Henrik Thrap-Meyer.

L`Album de l`exposition 1878 [...] vue d`ensemble de l`exposition de la Norvége
https://marcus ...

I would recomend "The Practical Dictionary of Carpentry - 1900 edition" by J. Justin Storck
http://justinstorck.free.fr/

It contains lots of interesting articles and illustrations.

This one for instance: Chalet - http://justinstorck.free.fr/c/chalet.php
…or this one: Plafond, fig 3165-3171 ...

Most of you may know the main facade of The Official Norwegian Pavilion. This is how it might have looked like from the oposite side

THE OFFICIAL NORWEGIAN PAVILION in 1889 was produced by M. Thams & Co, Strandheim Brug, Örkedalsören, Norway.
The architect was Christian Thams, graduated architect from Polytechnicum in Zürich – 1886.

The history behind this pavilion, how it became the official Norwegian pavilion and it’s ...