676 :-NRLF YH02442 orrr '! 1O UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION SAN FRANCISCO 1915 CELEBRATING THE OPENING OF THE PANAMA CANAL A PICTORIAL REVIEW OF THE EXPOSITION'S PROGRESS TO MARCH 15,1913. Board of Directors of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition William H. Crocker Reuben B. Hale I. W. Hellman, Jr. M. H. de Young CHAS. C. MOORE, President Vice-President James Rolph, Jr. Vice-President Vice-President Leon Sloss Vice-President Vice-President A. W. Foster Treasurer Vice-President Rudolph J. Taussig Secretary John Barneson M. J. Brandenstein John A. Britton Frank L. Brown W. W. Chapin Phillip T. Clay R. A. Crothers Charles de Young A. I. Esberg Charles S. Fee Joseph S. Tobin H. F. Fortmann S. Fred Hogue Homer S. King Curtis H. Lindley P. H. McCarthy James McNab Thornwell Mullally A. W. Scott, Jr. Henry T. Scott Charles S. Stanton Executive Staff FREDERICK J. V. SKIFF Director-in-Chief Director of Exhibits Asher Carter Baker Director of Exploitation George Hough Perry Director of Works Harris D. H. Connick Director of Concessions and Admissions Frank Burt Chief of Sculpture, Karl T. F. Bitter, New York Acting Chief of Sculpture, A. Stirling Calder, New York Chief of the Department of Color and Decoration, Jules Guerin, New York Chief of the Department of Electrical Illumination, W. D'A. Ryan, New York Chief Landscape Engineer, John McLaren, San Francisco Architectural Commission Willis Polk, San Francisco William B. Faville, San Francisco Clarence R. Ward, San Francisco George W. Kelham Chief of Architecture Louis C. Mullgardt, San Francisco Robert Farquhar, Los Angeles McKim, Mead & White, New Carrere & Hastings, New York Henry Bacon, New York York Associate Architects Arthur Brown, Jr. San Francisco G. Albert Lansburgh, San Francisco Copyright. 1913 Panama-Pacific International Exposition PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION . AT THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FEBRUARY TWENTIETH TO DECEMBER FOURTH 1915 J jr BY AUTHORITY OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT CELEBRATING THE OPENING OF THE PANAMA CANAL P.ge One CM 3 View of Exposition site showing Golden Gate in the distance Page Two Jc Charles C. Moore, President of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Frederick J. V. Skiff, Director-in-Chief of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Page Three The public meeting in San Francisco, April 28, 1910, when $4,089,000 was subscribed within (wo hours to the capital stock of the 1915 Exposition. Through subsequent subscriptions and pledges this sum was increased to $7,500,000. With the $5,000,000 appropriated by the State of California and the $5,000,000 donated by the Municipality of San Francisco, the total fund available for use of the Exposition management is $17,500,000. In addition, the Counties of California are raising over $2,000,000 by special tax for their individual participa- tion. It is expected that the grand total of expenditure, including foreign, state and private exhibitors, will approximate $50,000,000. Page Four fffefol fan if to flriA Stafu if 3rin; A <.? -( Ik* Fvifr 'w. U- fi^JiM W IW I brkj 1*. (WW'.oJ *W I l| 1*1*7 IH k -M*" k. HI *. HMrf. H "l. The President of the United States signing Joint Resolution, authorizing holding of the Panama Canal celebration at San Francisco in 1915 Pe Fiv he President of the United States (William Howard Taft) breaking ground for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in the presence of one hundred thousand people October 14, 1911 P.ge Si V^^^r ^^J^r 9*^ ^ri^^^^^9^H^ ^^^ ^^^^r ^BI^^%^^P^P ^P^^^^^^F ^^^ ^^^0 ^% ^^P^^% WIl* rl Vi5*. -^, / jii */. 4r.lt /t'/ifn y ( ><~nfvrj* . j7/5^- ftf ' /df /, ; /, ,, /,/,/, // f "( fa/t/l-rnia , ,',-r //,' 6,, , / /*,, .. .'friiri.tr- MMMnH , Am, t/f Afrr/-yjJ*r/*rf uxtS Arrr/m w fAa/ jttrA J>nrriwifn'*fit ('s/ifM/itrt MI// /* tAt*, tit SAr 'tf*/f d*'ffftA-ri*: &fai{ *** S"* if S t ' * \'>,,,,^,, lf n/ ,/ y J S/, f /,T/,/t y'/At '//*an Fran Commissioner Peter H. Corr receives deed for Massachusetts' site January 30, 1913 Pje Fifty-two "Universal EXPOSITION $an Francisco Minister C. Brun receives deed to Denmark's site March Page Fifty-three HK ittii BpP lUBBB^ Bfea myjjf ^- ^^^ g2J misitj BAidffl 1! INDEX TO EXHIBIT PALACCi A f-!4 Art-. C ' SOtlnl E UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION GROUND PLAN, SAN FRANCISCO. 1915 Hi-Ay. I - Liv SUi.:k L-Mlnfi ,.,<< n, . ,- ur{) Ground plan of Exposition Pg Fifty-lour \N NTE PL NATIONAL XPOSITION | SAN FRANCISCO 191-5 Birdseye view of the Universal Exposition of 1915, showing Alcatraz Island and San Francisco Bay P.ge Fifty-five United States Battleship Fleet anchored in San Francisco Bay off the Exposition site Page Fifty-si* Panama - Pacific International Exposition San Francisco, 1915 This Universal Exposition at San Francisco in 1915 is a distinctly National undertaking, deter- mined upon by the Congress of the United States, and designated by the President of the United States, for the purpose of celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal, a National accomplishment that importantly affects the entire world. In assuming the burden and expense of this mammoth celebration in response to the call of the President and Congress, the people of California are discharging an important public duty and executing a National trust, the accruing benefits of which will be shared by every State in the Union and by the entire citizenship of the Nation. While this great inter-hemisphere waterway is a National project, it is nevertheless a World's asset, and the celebration of its opening will be participated in by all countries and all peoples. The Exposition will constitute an international concourse of tremendous significance in its effect upon the natural productivity and commercial activity of all countries, and of the United States in particular. Up to March 15, 1913, twenty-six Foreign Countries and thirty-five Stales of the United Stales had officially accepted the invitation of the President of the United States to lafye part in this great Universal Celebration. 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