The jewel city : its planning and achievement : its architecture, sculpture, symbolism, and music : its gardens, palaces, and exhibits / by Ben Macomber ; with colored frontispiece and more than seventy-five other illustrations.

Main entry:

Macomber, Ben, 1876- author.

Title & Author:

Publication:

San Francisco ; Tacoma : John H. Williams, 1915.

Description:

204 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (1 color), plans ; 21 cm

Notes:
Plates printed on both sides.
At head of title: Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
"Much of Mr. Macomber's text was written originally for the San Francisco chronicle."--Introduction
Includes bibliographical references (page 200).
Introduction -- Motive and Planning of the Exposition -- Ground plan and landscape gardening -- South Gardens -- Tower of Jewels -- Court of the Universe -- Court of the Ages -- Court of the Seasons -- Courts of Flowers and Palms -- Fountains -- Palace of Machinery -- Palace of Fine Arts and its Exhibit, with the Awards -- Exposition illuminated -- Music at the Exposition -- Inside the Exhibit Palaces -- Foreign Pavilions -- State Buildings -- Live-stock Exhibit -- Sports and games; Automobile races; Aviation -- Joy Zone -- Appendix: Lists of sculptures, Mural paintings, and Artists -- Roster of the Exposition -- Index.

Resources:
Online version

Subject:

Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Exhibition buildings California San Francisco.
Expositions Constructions Californie San Francisco.
Exhibition buildings
San Francisco (Calif.) Exhibitions.
California San Francisco

Form/genre:

Printed books United States California San Francisco 20th century Specimens
Printed books United States Washington Tacoma 20th century Specimens
catalogs (documents)
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogs.
Booksellers' labels. CtY-BR
Catalogues.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

United States California San Francisco.
United States Washington (State) Tacoma.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 19235
Call No.: ID PO17290 EXP TC781; ID:87-B6460
Status: Available

Location: Library main 19236
Call No.: 0005886 0005887 EXP TC781; ID:87-B6460
Status: Available

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