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Maggi Laboratory, Paris (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 3 older comments, and then…
• trialsanderrors said:

  It seems strange to see a Swiss company laboratory vandalized in Paris, but apparently the Maggi GmbH was incorporated in Singen, Germany, just across the border.

• The Library of Congress said:

  Thank you trialsanderrors for adding some context to this photograph. We will add some of the information to the description when we update.

• Keillyy Swanson said:

  nice

• trialsanderrors said:

  This picture labels the store a dairy:
  
  "The 'Maggi' dairy sacked at the beginning of the war, Rue Richier, Paris, August 1914."
  
  Upon a quick search, I found this eyewitness report (from New Zealand, of all places), which describes Maggi as a brand of milk and consomme, discovered to be a German product sold by a German firm. Very interesting report of the first reaction to the mobilization, the Appenrodt tea room which we just discussed here also gets a mention.

• Arden said:

  trialsanderrors: Thank you for the related image and the newspaper report on the destruction of shops in Paris in August of 1914. The website of digitized newspapers from the National Library of New Zealand that you cited: paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast is a great resource, and as you note, covers news around the world.