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Title: The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Todd, Frank Morton Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company
Subjects: Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Publisher: New York, London : Pub. for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company by G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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tiful, especially those of rugs-royal Saruks, Kirmanshas, Bokharas, and lovely weavings from Tebriz,Herat, and Khorassan. The India section showed elaborately^T^l carved furniture and a plentiful assortment of Benares brass, o) India , , • , y ■ ■ ■ ■ \ J with old papier mache articles bearmg antique paintings. Andall about that corner of the Palace hung the odor of attar of roses, withoutwhich no exposition Orientalism would ever have just the proper Levantine smell. The diagonally opposite corner of this Palace expressed in strong con-trast the utilitarian ingenuity of the real Connecticut Yankee. Here wasa large section, in a booth of Corinthian treatment, exhibiring New Havenmanufactures—power-driven hack saws, band saws for cutting steel, auto-maric screw-cutring machines, builders hardware, cutring-dies for every-thing from envelopes to boots; lathe chucks, clocks, plumbers tools and 142 .«■ «■ rt .-; ,3 jv 1-; rt- «. rt. « W ft •«•.■«• «■ m h .-
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WILLIAM B- FAVILLE. ARCHITECT PHOTO BY CARDINELL-VINCENT COMPANY EXTRANCE TO THE PALACE OF VARIED INDUSTRIES IN THE TEMPLE OF TRADE 143 plumbing goods. With one of the power hack saws a three-inch steel barcould be cut through in three minutes. It was a little exposition in itself,and had a wide range of products, from corsets to the Yale Bowl. This last was shown by a model, and is worthy of attention as a signifi-cant feature of modern life—the great interest taken in intercollegiateathletics. It might be taken as a typical illustration of manners in the yearof the Canal. In the Exposition year the Yale Bowl was probably the nearestthing to the Flavian Amphitheater of ancient Rome, and there is hardlyany physical object that could more sharply differentiate the two ages;both called civilized. The Flavian Amphitheater, or Colosseum, wouldseat about 87,000 people, and after the S.R.O. sign went up it would admitabout 13,000 more; according to some authorities, while others put itsca

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