Panama-Pacific Exposition (1915: San Francisco, California) Search this
Physical description:
Number of Images: 2 ; Color: Color ; Size: 3.5w x 5.5h ; Type of Image: Postcard; Medium: Paper
Type:
Exhibit
Document
Paper
Place:
United States
Date:
1915
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
For other postcards from the Panama-Pacific Exposition, see: SIA2012-2560, SIA2012-2561, SIA2012-2840, SIA2012-2841, SIA2012-3554, SIA2012-3555, SIA2012-3556, SIA2012-3557, SIA2012-7599, SIA2012-7600, SIA2012-7601, SIA2012-7602, SIA2012-7603, SIA2012-7604, SIA2012-7605, SIA2012-7606, SIA2012-7607, SIA2012-7608, SIA2012-7609, SIA2012-7610, SIA2012-7611, SIA2012-7612, SIA2012-7613, SIA2012-7614.
The Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) was a World's Fair held in San Francisco, in the United States, between February 20 and December 4 in 1915. Its ostensible purpose was to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, but it was widely seen in the city as an opportunity to showcase its recovery from the 1906 earthquake. The fair was constructed on a 635 acre (2.6 kmĀ²) site in San Francisco, along the northern shore now known as the Marina.
Summary:
Postcard from the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, California. The postcard shows the Palace of Fine Arts. The exposition was intended to illustrate the function and administrative faculty of the Government of the United States and to demonstrate the nature and growth of its institutions, their adaptation to the wants of the people, and the progress of the nation in the arts of peace and war. The Smithsonian Institution contributed an exhibit focusing mainly on ethnology.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 70, Box 87, Folder: 9A