Description: San Francisco's Jewel City: The Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915, By Laura Ackley, Hardcover Illustrates the transformation of the city from the 1906 earthquake to the exposition in 1915 As seen in photos this book is in BRAND NEW condition, the spine is tight without creases, The Book has no signs of being fully opened. Pages are clean without highlighting, writing, or underlining. There are no tears or creases in the pages. Photos are of this book. (No stock photos) 2015 marks the centennial year of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, when host city San Francisco emerged from the ashes of earthquake and fire as a center of beauty and progress. On the Presidio’s waterfront and in what is now the Marina District, courtyards, formal gardens, and eleven Beaux-Arts palaces made up a miniature city resplendent in tones of golden-orange, copper green, cerulean, and “Pompeiian red.” Each palace hosted a thrilling array of exhibits and events that showed off the young century’s achievements and possibilities. Over it all, the forty-three-story Tower of Jewels cast the reflected light of one hundred thousand pieces of colored glass. This lavishly illustrated volume is as much a triumph as the fair itself. San Francisco’s Jewel City takes readers on an in-depth tour of the PPIE, revealing the dramas of constructing the fair and the displays of culture and industry that awaited within the exposition walls: electrical home appliances, rides in a homemade airplane, a world tour of twenty-one international pavilions, luminous radium crystals, and, of course, a model of the world-changing Panama Canal. Along the way, we meet famous (and infamous) visitors, such as Theodore Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Thomas Edison, and Buffalo Bill Cody. Historian Laura A. Ackley’s compelling text is unparalleled in its breadth of scope and richness of detail, providing social and political context for the fair and offering insight into its legacy today
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Book Title: San Francisco Jewel City:Panama Pacific International Expo
Item Length: 11 in
Original Language: English
Vintage: No
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 1 in
Personalized: No
Features: Illustrated
Topic: San Francisco
Item Width: 8.5 in
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Heyday
Inscribed: No
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Photographic History
Literary Movement: History
Era: 2010s
Author: Laura A. Ackley
Genre: History, Transportation, Design
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 0.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
