François-Henri Lavanchy-Clarke

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Danse dans un jardin
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Children’s performance in Ukrainian costume in the garden of the Villa du Méridien in Cannes, next to Lavanchy-Clarke’s Villa Belle Rive. In 1904, Russian officers wounded in the war with Japan were convalescing in Cannes.
Une autre danse dans un jardin
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Two young girls in Ukrainian costume perform a dance near a palm tree in a garden.
Promenade au Mont de Baulmes
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Playful ramblers carrying Sunlight placards in a cow pasture in the Jura (Canton of Vaud). The respectable gentleman is none other than William Whiteley (1831-1907), founder of London’s first department store. Is this a home movie or advertising for the launch of the Sunlight Helvetia soap factory (Olten, 12 October 1898)? Maybe both.
Deuxième cortège pour l'inauguration du Musée National Suisse
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Second pageant for the opening of the Swiss National Museum.
Premier cortège pour l'inauguration du Musée National Suisse
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First pageant celebrating the opening of the Swiss National Museum.
Défilé dans la ville de Morat
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Annual pageant commemorating the anniversary of the Battle of Morat, the victory in 1476 of the Swiss Confederates over the Duke of Burgundy. The family of Emile Lavanchy watches the event from the left.
Animation sur la Marktplatz à Saint-Gall
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Advertising in the center of St. Gallen.
Circulation sur la Börsenplatz à Saint-Gall
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Scene filmed in the town of St. Gallen.
Cortège du Carnaval de Bâle, I
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First part of a series documenting the Basel carnival.
Cortège du Carnaval de Bâle, IV
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Fourth part of a series documenting the Basel carnival.
Cortège du Carnaval de Bâle, V
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Fifth part of a series documenting the Basel carnival.
Cortège du Carnaval de Bâle, III
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Third part of a series of vues of the Basel Carnival.
Cortège du centenaire, Place de la Riponne
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Patriotic celebration in Lausanne marking the centenary of the independence of the Canton of Vaud.
Montreux: panorama pris du funiculaire Territet - Glion
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View from a funicular train in the Montreux region.
Panorama pris d'un train assurant la ligne Glion - Rochers-de-Naye
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View from a train in the Montreux region.
Cortège d'enfants à Aarau
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A children’s procession that is part of the Maienzug, a festival solemnly marking the end of the school year in Aarau.
Suisse: Exercices de tir par l'artillerie
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Cadet manoeuvres at the Aarau Children’s Festival (the Maienzug).
Jeux à la campagne
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Near a chalet in a cow pasture in the Jura, at Frohburg (Canton of Solothurn), Jenny Lavanchy-Clarke and her children Christine, Henri, and Bertha watch three lively pairs of boys doing an imitation of the lutte à la culotte (traditional Swiss wrestling). There is even a referee, stick in hand, and a judge noting the score.
Exercices de tir
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Swiss Army gunners practicing.
Mise en place d'une batterie
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A battery being set up.
La fosse aux ours de Berne
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The bear is the emblem of Bern, and the pit that used to house several of the animals was the most common motif in representations of the city, as well as a central tourist attraction.
Berne : arrivée du roi de Siam
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The arrival of King Rama V, the king of Siam, in Switzerland.
Saut de haies et course à l'hippodrome de Schützenmatte à Bâle
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A military horse show in Basel.
Saut de haies par des militaires à l'hippodrome de Schützenmatte à Bâle
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Military exercises in Basel.
Marché à Berne
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A city view, rich in movement, shot at the corner of the Schauplatzgasse in Bern.
Défilé du 8e bataillon
Himself
A battalion, preceded by three riders and a military marching band, parades in front of the crowd. A man is manoeuvring a handcart bearing the inscription "Sunlight Soap" in the foreground.
Woodcutters
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Three men are chopping and transporting firewood, among passers-by, on a square in Lausanne.
Pont du Mont-Blanc, Genève
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A view of the Mont-Blanc bridge in Geneva.