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The Jewel City - Ben Macomber
Introduction:
This book gives an overview of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. This books discusses more than the artwork, by describing the contents of the other palaces, the state buildings, and the foreign pavilions. This book has been placed under John J. Newbegin as the publisher, yet this presents a bit of a quandry in that the book also lists this as a John W. Williams publication, and the printer was H. S. Crocker; thus the publishing business in San Francisco was rather incestous; in some ways like the current motion picture industry in Los Angeles. This is my 54th Project Guttenberg title. Link to other titles dealing with the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Introduction and Contents

I. Motive and Planning of the Exposition

II. Ground Plan and Landscape Gardening

III. The South Gardens

IV. "The Walled City": Its Great Palaces and their Architecture, Color and Material

V. The Tower of Jewels

VI. The Court of the Universe

VII. The Court of the Ages

VIII. The Court of the Seasons

IX. Courts of Flowers and Palms

X. The Fountains

XI. The Palace of Machinery

XII. The Palace of Fine Arts and its Exhibit, with the Awards

XIII. The Exposition Illuminated

XIV. Music at the Exposition

XV. Inside the Exhibit Palaces

XVI. The Foreign Pavilions

XVII. The State Buildings

XVIII. The Live-Stock Exhibit

XIX. Sports and Games; Automobile Races; Aviation

XX. The Joy Zone

Appendix

(A) Sculptures and Mural Painting

(B) Statistics of Construction Work

(C) The Exposition Roster

(D) Bibliography

Index

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Illustrations

DOC file for Palm (Project Guttenberg Version)