Panama Pacific International Exposition photograph album, 1910-1916.

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Panama Pacific International Exposition photograph album, 1910-1916.

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The leather bound album contains 101 platinum prints, ten hand-colored, which document activities of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (P.P.I.E.) of 1915 taken by the Cardinell-Vincent Company, the official photographers of the Exposition. The album was prepared for presentation to officials in organizing and directing the P.P.I.E. The prints include visual records of such ceremonies as the opening, the closing and the burning of the P.P.I.E. corporate mortgage and the Vanderbilt Cup auto race. The Exposition's structures and sculptures are documented, including Palace of Fine Arts, Tower of Jewels, Court of Palms, Court of Flowers, California Building, and James Earle Fraser's End of the Trail. An envelope tipped into the back of album includes correspondence to Lawrence W. Harris from Theodore Hardee and a P.P.I.E. 1915 square, silk scarf.

1 photograph album : 101 photographic prints : platinum ; album 29 x 36 cm., prints 19 x 24 cm.

San Francisco Public Library, Main Library

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San Francisco Public Library, Main Library

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Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)

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Panama-Pacific Exposition held in San Francisco, Cal. in 1915, where Illinois had a visitors' building. From the description of Register of visitors, Feb. 1915-Dec. 1915. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 49393876 History of the Panama Pacific International Exposition San Francisco hosted the Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915. Officials from the Exposition printed postcards for the ...

Cardinell-Vincent Company.

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The Cardinell-Vincent Company was the official photographer of the Panama Pacific International Exposition under the direction of the president John D. Cardinell. The company employed over 150 employees at the P.P.I.E., had photographic galleries on the grounds and organized the enterprise into different departments. From the description of Panama Pacific International Exposition photograph album, 1910-1916. (San Francisco Public Library). WorldCat record id: 501339143 ...