Golden Gate International Exposition records, 1937-1939.

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Golden Gate International Exposition records, 1937-1939.

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Reports and papers concerning the construction of buildings and financing for the GGIE. Includes drawings of the sea wall construction; a 3-vol. report titled: Historical record of the Division of Estimates of San Francisco Bay Exposition in preparation of budgetary estimates, issued to W.P. Day, Vice-President and Director of Works of the GGIE; an unpublished typescript report (1939), titled: Business aspects of the preparations for the Golden Gate International Exposition, prepared by Robert B. Hoover, which contains data on the origins of the exposition, expected income, and publicity programs; and a bound, typed closing report of the San Francisco Bay Exposition, sponsor for the GGIE, by H.C. Bottorff.

1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

California historical society

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California historical society

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Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco, Calif.)

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History It has been said that with two great bridges in the course of construction, there began in San Francisco, in about 1933, a substantial feeling that a celebration or exposition should be held to commemorate their completion. As the plans for an exposition developed, it seemed fitting that its theme should be man's progress in communication, transportation, trade and industry, since these were the fields symbolized by the bridges. The S...

Hoover, Robert Joseph

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Bottorff, H. C.

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