Panama Pacific Exposition Progress Revealed in 1915 preview
The Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco 1915 draws world attention with lavish sculptures and vast displays. Nations participate including Argentina with 1.3 million dollars, and aviators plan a world circumnavigation race with 300000 dollars in prizes. Notable sculptors and August Jaegers contribute works for the Court of the Four Seasons.
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Chicago
San Francisco
Argentina
Canada at Panama-Pacific Exposition Palace 1915
Canada plans a grand pavilion at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco 1915. The Canadian Palace will cover 65 000 square feet, cost around 300 000 dollars, and house extensive agricultural mineral forest and fisheries exhibits. A 1 000 000 dollar appropriation is planned.
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Canada
William Hutchison
Dominion
Painted Scenes From Panama Pacific Exposition
Description notes two artworks from the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. The larger piece at right titled Spring is by Furio Piccirrilli, part of the Court of the Four Seasons. On the left Sunshine by A Jaegers accompanies a companion Rain by the same artist.
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Furio Piccirrilli
San Francisco
A. Jaegers
Lincoln Beachey tops indoor flight at fair in San Francisco
Lincoln Beachey, American aviator, made the world first indoor aeroplane flight at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. He started at one end of the Palace of Machinery, rose to about fifty feet, and flew 300 feet before tearing through cloth barriers and tumbling the craft, despite a thousand foot wooden frame and three long aisles complicating the run.
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Lincoln Reachey
San Francisco
Palace of Machinery
Beachey
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