Abigail Markwyn, PPIE, and "Empress San Francisco"
Channel: San Francisco Public Library
Date: 2015-03-13

The author of "Empress San Francisco" presents an illustrated lecture on "Spectacle, Identity, and Citizenship:
Bay Area Ethnic and Racial Communities at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition." Abigail Markwyn shares photographs of the PPIE and discusses the choices of participation by ethnic communities of the San Francisco Bay Area. "Empress San Francisco" is available to check out from our online catalog, and you can browse more than 2,000 historic photos of the PPIE online: http://sflib1.sfpl.org:82/search/a?searchtype=X&searcharg=%22panama%22+pacific+international+exposition&SORT=D