Identifier: officialguideboo00pana (find matches)
Title: Official guide book of the Panama-California exposition, giving in detail, location and description of buildings, exhibits and concessions, with floor plans of the buildings and exterior views
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Panama-California Exposition Commission
Subjects: Panama-California Exposition (1915 : San Diego, Calif.)
Publisher: (San Diego, National views company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Two of the California Counties Buildings, inwhich are shown the wonderful resources of theGolden State. Above is the Sacramento ValleyBuilding on the Plaza de Panama. Below the South-ern Counties Building near the South Gate.
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(21) present a picture of the golden age of that race—a page of human history thatis as worthy of study as are its great contemporaries of the old world. For the first time in the history of expositions a great building is devotedto ancient America. Here are to be seen the most important works of theancient peoples of Central America, a civilization which reached its zenith andwent down before it became known to white men. The picture of this an-cient culture is presented in fac-simile reproductions of their remarkable bas-relief sculptures, hieroglyphic inscriptions and majestic monuments; in modelsof their temples and palaces; paintings of their Temple Cities; sculpturesdepicting their activities, and objects of art excavated from their ruins. Neverbefore have the noble works of the Mayas been given such a setting, and neverbefore have they been presented in such perfection. Works of Art Relating to Ancient America in theCALIFORNIA BUILDING. VESTIBULE. HISTORICAL FRIEZE, DISCOVERY

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