Marvelous Pan Pacific Exposition Displays Caterpillar Tractors
At San Francisco Pan-Pacific Expo in the Agriculture Palace visitors note the caterpillar power tractor nearly replacing the old high wheeled engines. Exhibits show heavy chains around sprockets supporting engines for work on soft ground. Also featured are Roosevelt’s customized gun, pearl culture exhibits from Japan, and Daniel Webster’s 1800s plow displayed to contrast with modern farm machinery.
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Daniel Webster
Ito Caciel Webster
Marshfield
Mass
Aero Scope at Panama Pacific Exposition Impresses Visitors
The Zone at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition features the Aero scope a towering crane like ride with a two story car for 30 occupants and a counter balanced concrete base. Water ballast adjusts for weight changes ensuring safe ascent to 268 feet with a panoramic view of San Francisco Bay and the exposition. Visitors also explore Soa Kum and other concessions along the Zone's broad avenue for prizes.
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San Francisco
Bay
City of
Seawall
Tehuantepec Village Displays 10000 Year Old Arts at Panama-Pacific
The Tehuantepec display at the Panama-Pacific Exposition brings an ancient Central American culture to San Francisco. Visitors view carpet weaving onyx cutting clay and wax modeling pottery coloring and a typical garden showcase of landscape art.
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San Francisco
Central America
World in Epitome Shown by Pan Pacific Exposition Palaces
The Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco dazzles visitors with vast exhibit palaces and color filled grounds. Highlights include the Fountain of Energy and the Tower of Jewels, the Audion amplifier enabling long distance telephone talks, and railroads offering low round trip rates to San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Scott Street
California
Lee de Forest
Liberal Arts Palace
Atlantic Coast
New York City
Radium Experiments At Panama Pacific Exposition
Exhibits in San Francisco demonstrate radium’s growth boosting effects on plants and the radioactivity of terra cotta bricks. An inventor claims his process makes ordinary water carry the qualities of famous mineral springs. Also shown are the fastest motion photographs of a 1 inch coast defense shell in flight captured at one five thousandth of a second.
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San Francisco
Carlsbad
Baden Bades
Colorado
Utah
War Department
San Francisc
Ani
Fortress Monroe
PF. J. Beh
Coast Artillery Corps
Coal Artillery School
Native Life of the Far Pacific at San Francisco Exposition
A photograph showcases the Samoan village at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. Thethatched huts replicate the Navigator Islands so visitors can observe native dances aquatic feats and performances. Samoans are noted for Aryan traces and the unique village life attracts attention.
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Navigator Islands
Pacife Ocean
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Louisiana
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America
University of the World
Gamaliel
Thomas R Marshall
Theodore Roosevelt
Africa
Far East
Japan
Kokichi Mikimoto
Uncle Sam
MR. Soa Kum
Far Pacific
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