Exhibits and Expositions collection, 1867-1939

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Summary

Title:
Exhibits and Expositions collection
Subtitle:
Exhibits and Expositions collection
Dates:
1867-1939
Abstract:
The collection consists of materials relating to international exhibitions and expositions. The bulk of the materials relate to three expositions held in San Francisco, California: the California Midwinter Fair (1894), the Pan-Pacific International Exposition (1915), and the Golden Gate Inernational Exposition (1939-1940). The collection also includes materials relating to other international expositions held in North America and Europe between 1867 and 1939, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893).
Extent:
2.73 Cubic feet 2 archives boxes, 1 half-size archives box, 1 legal archives box, 2 flat archives boxes, 1 card box, 2 oversize folders, 2 oversized framed items
Language:
Materials are in English . and Materials are in English .
Preferred citation:

[collection name], Special Collections, California Academy of Sciences Library, San Francisco, CA

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of materials relating to international exhibitions and expositions. The bulk of the materials relate to three expositions held in San Francisco, California: the California Midwinter Fair (1894), the Pan-Pacific International Exposition (1915), and the Golden Gate Inernational Exposition (1939-1940). The collection also includes materials relating to other international expositions held in North America and Europe between 1867 and 1939, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893).

The collection consists primarily of publications, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, postcards, illustrations, maps, and ephemera such as tickets, souvenirs, coins, medals, and pins. The collection also includes some memoranda and correspondence relating to the Golden Gate International Exposition and its Pacific House building, and to the 1994 exhibition marking the centennial of the California Midwinter Fair.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Andrew Berger, Archival Intern
Date Prepared:
June 30, 2010
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2011-01-24T13:04-0800

Access and use

Restrictions:

Access is unrestricted.

Terms of access:

All requests subject to limitations noted in departmental policies on reproduction.

Preferred citation:

[collection name], Special Collections, California Academy of Sciences Library, San Francisco, CA

Location of this collection:
55 Music Concourse Drive
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118, US
Contact:
(415) 379-5487
library@calacademy.org
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