California Mid-Winter Exposition Souvenir Pin Tray, Manufactures Building
date: label: Date made
content: 1894
notes: label: Description
content: Souvenir pin tray commemorating the California Mid-Winter Exposition. The tray features an image of the Fair's Manufactures Building and the Firth Wheel, a Ferris Wheel amusement.
label: Description
content: Also known as the “Midwinter Fair,” San Francisco’s California Midwinter International Exposition ran from late January to early June 1894. A World’s Fair, the exposition, held in Golden Gate Park, featured four main exhibition buildings, new architecture such as a 266 foot steel lookout named the Bonet Tower, amusement rides and a working mining camp reenactment. Like other Fairs of the period, the Midwinter Exposition featured controversial “ethnological exhibits,” basically human zoos showcasing non-white ethnic groups meant o demonstrate the superiority of Western culture. Today two features from the Fair, the Fine Arts Building, now known as the M.H. DeYoung Memorial Museum, and the Japanese tea garden, remain.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, San Francisco
label: Associated Place
content: United States: California, San Francisco
topic: label: Subject
content: Expositions and Fairs
label: related event
content: California Midwinter International Exposition
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Larry Zim World's Fair Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0438.0805
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0438.0805
label: accession number
content: 1989.0438
label: catalog number
content: CA1894SW01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pin Tray
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in x 3/4 in; 21.59 cm x 6.985 cm x 1.905 cm