Plate 1. Aeroplane view, main group of exhibit. (Library of Congress.)
Plate 2. Map of the fairgrounds. (Official Guide.)
Plate 3. “Get Your Congressman to Vote.” (Donald G. Larson Collection, Special Collections Research Center, California State University, Fresno.)
Plate 4. “California Welcomes the World.” (Donald G. Larson Collection, Special Collections Research Center, California State University, Fresno.)
Plate 5. Another variation on “California Welcomes the World,” this postcard emphasized the marriage of progress and commerce at the fair. (Personal collection of author.)
Plate 6. At the PPIE the grizzly bear image signified the city’s recovery from the 1906 earthquake and fire. (Library of Congress.)
Plate 7. “The Greatest, Most Beautiful and Most Important in History . . .” The official fair poster designed by Perham Nahl. (Donald G. Larson Collection, Special Collections Research Center, California State University, Fresno.)
Plate 8. The South Gardens, opening day. (#1959.087—ALB, 2:23, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.)
Plate 9. PPIE participant badge. (Collection of the Oakland Museum, gift of Mr. Guy M. Walden.)
Plate 10. Autochrome of Fountain of Energy, PPIE. (PG #3565.14, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.)
Plate 11. Autochrome of flower beds and Arch of the West, PPIE. (PG #3565.11, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.)
Plate 12. Exposition grounds, three months before opening day. (Library of Congress.)
Plate 13. Festival Hall. (Souvenir Views of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915.)
Plate 14. Autochrome of Siam Pavilion. (PG #3565.02, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.)
Plate 15. PPIE, San Francisco Day ticket, 1915. (Gift of Mrs. Charles H. Jurgens, Collection of the Oakland Museum of California.)
Plate 16. The Scintillator. Electric lighting made nights at the exposition particularly impressive. (Donald G. Larson Collection, Special Collections Research Center, California State University, Fresno.)
Plate 17. The Palace of Fine Arts illuminated. (Souvenir Views of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915.)
Plate 18. The Tower of Jewels and exhibit palaces illuminated. (Souvenir Views of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915.)
Plate 19. Palace of Liberal Arts and the Fountain of Energy. (Souvenir Views of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915.)
Plate 20. Advancement of health exhibit at the PPIE. The Race Betterment Booth introduced visitors to the “science” of eugenics. (San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.)
Plate 21. The $100,000 typewriter, found in the Palace of Liberal Arts, impressed many guests with its enormous size. Postcards such as this one helped to advertise the fair’s wares across the nation. (Donald G. Larson Collection, Special Collections Research Center, California State University, Fresno.)
Plate 22. Exhibit of Golden State Butter, one of many California agricultural industries advertised at the fair. (Donald G. Larson Collection, Special Collections Research Center, California State University, Fresno.)
Plate 23. Palace of Horticulture and the South Gardens. (Souvenir Views of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915.)
Plate 24. The South Gardens and the Tower of Jewels. (Souvenir Views of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915.)
Plate 25. The great South Gardens. (Souvenir Views of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. San Francisco, 1915.)
Plate 26. Autochrome of the Tower of Jewels. (PG #3565.06, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.)
Plate 27. Autochrome of the Tower of Jewels’ interior. (PG #3565.02, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.)
Plate 28. View of the Zone at the PPIE showing the Chinese Village and the Battle of Gettysburg, Alt Nurnberg, and Tehuantepec Buildings. (San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.)
Plate 29. Samoan dancers and the golden Buddha of Japan Beautiful in the Zone at the PPIE. (San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.)
Plate 30. Chinese restaurant inside the Palace of Food Products, PPIE. (San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.)
Plate 31. The Inside Inn. (San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.)
Plate 32. Autochrome of the Colonnades, Palace of Fine Arts. (PG #3565.03, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.)