CONNECT with the CityPanama California Exposition 1915-16
Title Official Views San Diego Panama-California Exposition (San Diego All the Year 1915)
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Publication Information 1915
Note by the Author
On as inspiring a site as the world can offer, a broad mesa surrounded by palm-filled canyons and commanding a gorgeous view of the flower-gowned slopes, the peaks of California and Mexico, the vineyards and orchards of orange and olive and the majestic Pacific, San Diego has built its Exposition Beautiful, to last not only throughout 1915, but as many years thereafter as stone and staunch timber will hold together.
No conventional architecture is here, such as crammed the grounds of the old-style world's fair, but mission and cathedral and palace uniformly of the Spanish Colonial type, the type which Cabrillo knew when he, the first white man to see the Pacific coast of what was to be the United States, sailed into the Harbor of the Sun in 1542; the type which Viscaino knew, the type which Fray Serra knew and did much to reproduce when he planted civilization on the west coast, at the old mission of San Diego de Alcala. No conventional costumes clothe the guards and attendants. They are caballero and conquistadore, guardsmen of Castile, dancing girls of Aragon. The atmosphere of old Spain and the days of the padres is flawless, decked out with the added quaintness of the Indian life of the Southwest.
Over the appealing lines of the buildings, over the cool cloisters, around the pergolas which overhang the canyons, up the slopes of the campaniles and the domes and the mission bell towers where the pigeons nest, everywhere swarms the semi-tropical foliage of southern California, the palm and cypress, the eucalypt and acacia, the rose, the clematis, the jasmine, the honeysuckle, the triumphant splendor of the bougainvillea. The scent of the orange floods the air, cooled by the soft zephyr from the near-by sea. Here is rest; here is peace; here is happiness. Here is the loveliness of bountiful Nature, assembled and crystallized at San Diego's Exposition Beautiful.
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Title Official Publication Panama California International Exposition (San Diego 1916)
Contents 48 photos
| El Prado and Plaza De Panama | Model Farm (Southern California Counties) | Canadian Government Building |
| Kern and Tulare Counties Building | Ran Joaquin Valley Building | Russia and Brazil Building |
| Tower if Russia and Brazil Building, Through Arch | Panama Canal Exhibit | Southern California Counties Building |
| Puente Cabrillo | The Painted Desert | Botanical Pavilion and Gardens |
| Interior San Joaquin Valley Building | United States Government Building | The Pigeons on Plaza De Panama |
| Colonnade of the United States Government Building | Panama-Pacific Building | Bird’s -eye View from Tower of California State Building |
| Foreign and Domestic Industries Building | New Mexico State Building | Japanese Tea Pavilion, from Botanical Garden |
| California State Building (Containing French Government Exhibit) | Open Air Concert at Night | El Prado |
| The Great Open Air Organ and Pavilion | Foreign Arts Building | Canadian Government, El Prado, Foreign and Domestic Industries Building |
| Formal Gardens and Orange Grove, from Southern California Counties Building | La Laguna De Las Flores | Science and Education Building |
| California State Building | Foreign and Domestic Industries Building | Colonnades, United States Government Building at Night, Showing Indirect Lighting |
| Interior Botanical Pavilion | Canadian Government Building, from La Laguna De Las Flores | The Court and Arches, Southern California Counties Building |
| Fine Arts Building | California Building, Entrance to Plaza De Panama | El Prado Looking Toward Main Entrance |
| Entrance to Plaza De Panama at Night | Botanical Gardens | Pillared Court on El Prado |
| Vista from United States Government Building | Plaza De Panama from Pergola | View from Arches of Kern and Tulare Counties Building, Facing Plaza De Los Estados |
| Towers Russia and Brazil Building through Arch at Night, Showing Indirect Lighting | View from New Mexico State Building |
Publication Information The Albertype Company, Brooklyn, NY, 1916
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