Panama Pacific Exposition Progress Reveals Stunning Riches
A preview of the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco shows gold domes, blue minarets, and world class sculpture. Nations will display with Argentina leading a 1.3 million dollar government exhibit as aviators plan world circuit races with 300 thousand dollars in prize money. The Court of the Four Seasons will showcase decorative sculpture, including a classical piece by August Jaegers.
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Chicago
San Francisco
Argentina
Stoefner
Mulhausen
Germany
West Court
Canada at Panama-Pacific Exposition 1915
Canada plans a grand Panama-Pacific Exposition palace in San Francisco with a 340 by 240 foot footprint, 50 foot height, about 300000 dollars cost, and a 1000000 dollar potential grant. The display will show agricultural, horticultural, mineral, forest, and fisheries resources, with rail transport emphasis and a major sculpture by Ralph Stackpole.
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San Francisco
Canada
William Hutchson
Dominion
Panama-Pacific
Four Seasons Court at Panama Pacific Exposition
The display features Furio Piccirrilli’s Spring as the large right group while A Jaegers shows Sunshine on the left. Jaegers also created a companion piece named Rain.
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Furio Piccirrilli
San Francisco
A. Jaegers
Beachey Makes Indoor Flight at Panama Exposition
Lincoln Beachey, American aviator, completed the world first indoor flight inside the Palace of Machinery at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. He rose to about fifty feet and flew 300 feet along a central aisle between timber columns, tearing through cloth barriers despite a hundred horsepower engine.
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Lincoln Reachey
San Francisco
Palace of Machinery
Beachey
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