The gleam of the electric scintillators at night in the Court of Four Seasons, Panama-Pacivic Int. Exp., San Francisco, Calif. – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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The gleam of the electric scintillators at night in the Court of Four Seasons, Panama-Pacivic Int. Exp., San Francisco, Calif. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The gleam of the electric scintillators at night in the Court of Four Seasons, Panama-Pacivic Int. Exp., San Francisco, Calif.
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Night lighting drew crowds to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, and this stereo card captures the glitter of electric light in the Court of Four Seasons. The fair ran from February to December 1915, marking the opening of the Panama Canal and the city's recovery from the 1906 earthquake and fire. Its illumination was among its most talked-about features, with electric lamps and reflective surfaces making the buildings seem to shimmer after dark. Keystone View Company, a major publisher of stereographs, sold cards like this one so viewers could revisit the fair through a stereoscope at home.
| Created / published | c1915 June 17. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | J203870 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo Copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 17805. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Electr.; Exh.; Ph. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 780 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158346 |
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