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Panama Pacific International Exposition 1915, San Francisco, California
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Postcard showing new buildings in San Francisco with earthquake ruins and bear in foreground. Two small images of buildings of the Panama Pacific International Exposition at bottom.
K25796 U.S. Copyright Office.
On front: "Copyright 1911 by Edw. H. Mitchell."
On front: "F. Koch".
On back: "Published by Edward H. Mitchell, San Francisco, Cal."
Originally a Spanish (later Mexican) mission and pueblo, it was conquered by the United States in 1846 and by an invading army of prospectors following the 1848 discovery of gold in its hinterland. The Gold Rush made San Francisco a cosmopolitan metropolis with a frontier edge. In early 1900s the city tried to remake itself into a grand and modern Paris of the West.
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