San Diego

This article from the Fine Arts Journal was written by Frank P. Allen, the director of the World’s Fair in San Diego, also known as the Panama-California Exposition. It was published in 1915, the year that the fair was held. The main focus of the article is the influence of the Spanish Colonial style of the architecture, but it also includes information on the construction and specific features of each of the structures. The article contains several black-and-white photographs of many of the buildings including the Home Economy building, the Foreign and Domestic Arts building, and the California State building.

This article from the California Historical Society is a description of the architecture of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco, California which ran simultaneously with the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego in 1915. The San Francisco fair contained over two miles of buildings that were constructed on what is now the Marina District. Brechin’s account describes architectural construction, individual structures, and the fate of many of the buildings once the fair was closed. The article contains fifteen large black-and-white photographs of the architecture, including a ground map plan and a panoramic view of the exposition. The author, Dr. Gray Brechin, is a historical geographer and is currently a visiting scholar at U.C. Berkeley. He has written a number of articles and books on the history of San Francisco and is a project scholar of California’s Living New Deal Project.