Panama-Pacific International Exposition - Photographs, 1915

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Summary

Title:
Photographs of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Dates:
1915
Creators:
Cardinell-Vincent Company
Abstract:
The Photographs of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition collection contains 31 photographic prints of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition taken by the Cardinell-Vincent Company, the official photographers of the Exposition.
Extent:
31 photographic prints, 36 x 27 cm. or smaller; 1 photomechanical reproduction of painting, mounted, 25 x 36 cm. 32 digital objects
Language:
Collection materials are in English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Photographs of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, BANC PIC 1969.035--PIC, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Background

Scope and content:

The Photographs of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition collection contains 31 photographic prints of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition taken by the Cardinell-Vincent Company, the official photographers of the Exposition. Attractions of the Exposition featured in the collection include the Palace of Fine Arts, the Tower of Jewels, the Court of the Universe, the Court of Abundance, the Court of Four Seasons, the Court of Palms, Festival Hall, and the Italian Pavilion, as well as various paintings and sculptural works. Architects, sculptors and painters whose work is featured in the collection include Bernard Maybeck, A. Stirling Calder, Thomas Hastings, George W. Kelham, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, James Earle Fraser, Edward Berge, Robert I. Aitken, Louis Christian Mullgardt, Daniel Chester French, Arthur F. Mathews, Adolph A. Weinman, Robert Farquhar, Frank Brangwyn, Henry Bacon, and Albert Jaeger.

Several of the prints are hand-colored. The collection also includes a mounted color photomechanical reproduction of an Exposition painting.

Biographical / historical:

The Panama-Pacific International Exposition (P.P.I.E.), held in 1915 in San Francisco, commemorated the opening of the Panama Canal in July of that year and sought to display to the world the recovery of San Francisco from the devastating earthquake and fire of 1906. Conceived as early as 1904, the extravagant P.P.I.E. covered circa 300 acres along the picturesque bayside Marina district of San Francisco. Temporary palaces, towers, gardens, fountains and miscellaneous attractions were constructed, creating a diverse yet harmonious "city of domes," which combined Spanish and Italian baroque designs with those of Byzantium and the Orient. In addition to inviting nations from all over the world to erect buildings and exhibits on the grounds, the P.P.I.E. also employed a distinguished array of architects, sculptors, painters and other artisans to develop the design of the larger palaces and courts. The Exposition was held from February 4 to December 4, and attracted circa 19 million visitors. The only original structure remaining on site from the Exposition is Bernard Maybeck's Palace of Fine Arts, which was restored in the 1960s. The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, built in 1924 at San Francisco's Land's End, is a replica of France's palace of the same name, which was originally replicated for the P.P.I.E. as the French Pavilion.

Acquisition information:
Unknown.
Processing information:

Finding aid and digital representations of archival material funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Rules or conventions:
Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Chris McDonald.
Date Prepared:
© 1996
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid generated by GenX; markup validated by The Bancroft Library using CDL validation tools; Date of source: May 2013

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is available for use.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Photographs of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, BANC PIC 1969.035--PIC, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Location of this collection:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
Contact:
510-642-6481
bancref-library@berkeley.edu
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