San Francisco's Jewel City
Subtitle: the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915
By: Laura A. Ackley
Publisher: Heyday
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9781597142922
Subjects: Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Other titles: Jewel City
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-369) and index.
Table of contents: title: Fair fight; title: Envisioning the ephemeral city; title: Building the dream; title: A global courtship; title: The exposition will not be postponed; title: An architectural tour of the palaces and courts; title: A masterpiece of illumination; title: State of the art: 1915; title: The university of the world and shop-window of civilization; title: A world tour within the Golden Gate; title: Famous and infamous visitors; title: A pageant of art; title: A stroll along the Joy Zone; title: Race and red lights on the midway; title: Filling the playbill; title: The grandest bands; title: Seasons of wonder; title: Imperium in imperio; title: Death and life of a fair.