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Illustrated catalogue of the post-exposition exhibition in the Department of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, January first to May first, nineteen hundred and sixteen
Illustrated catalogue of the post-exposition exhibition in the Department of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, January first to May first, nineteen hundred and sixteen
Panama-Pacific International Exposition
The item is a small novelty souvenir viewbook designed to look like a suitcase with a string handle. The suitcase opens up to display 15 attached, folded halftone photographic views of the San Francisco area. The inside cover is printed "Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1916." The outside includes the words, "Foster & Orear Confectioners."
Empire on Display
The world’s fair of 1915 celebrated both the completion of the Panama Canal and the rebuilding of San Francisco following the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire. The exposition spotlighted the canal and the city as gateways to the Pacific, where the American empire could now expand after its victory in the Spanish-American War. Empire on Display is the first book to examine the Panama-Pacific International Exposition through the lenses of art history and cultural studies, focusing on the event’s expansionist and masculinist symbolism. The exposition displayed evidence—visual, spatial, geographic, cartographic, and ideological—of America’s imperial ambitions and accomplishments. R...
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