THE ARCHITECTURE AND THE GARDENS OF THE SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION: A Pictorial Survey of the Aesthetic Features of the Panama California International Exposition. Described by Carleton Monroe Winslow, together with an essay by Clarence S. Stein, illustrated from photographs by Harold A. Taylor
San Francisco: Paul Elder, (1916). First edition. Hardcover. Original tan linen with gilt titles; octavo; x, 154 pp. Frontispiece and 68 tipped in illustrations from photographs, each with facing page of descriptive text. Dustjacket. A fine copy, entirely clean and unworn in dustjacket with some fading to spine and rear panel, else very good. Item #22165
San Diego's "Panama California International Exposition" was held the year following San Francisco's "Panama-Pacific International Exposition." While both events celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, both also had secondary purposes: San Francisco to showcase the city's resurrection from the ashes of the 1906 earthquake and fire; San Diego to showcase its fine seaport, the first US port of call to ships coming through the Canal.
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