The Panama Pacific International Exposition, 1906. Library of Congress. Plans for an international exhibition to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal were first discussed in 1904 — a decade ...

This Friday marks the 100th anniversary of opening day for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Held in today's Marina District, the 1915 world's fair was the city's chance to prove that ...

Architectural historian Laura Ackley can’t suppress a giggle when she talks about the Marin County exhibit at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the fabled world’s fair she celebrates ...

Mayor Ed Lee and a host of admirers of a long-ago world’s fair opened a long-closed door at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts on Wednesday to begin a centennial celebration of the 1915 Panama ...

When was the last time you set foot in a world’s fair? Maybe it was at the futuristically named Century 21 Exposition, for which Seattle constructed its Space Needle. That was in 1962. Perhaps the New ...

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The Panama Pacific International Exposition, 1906. Library of Congress. Plans for an international exhibition to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal were first discussed in 1904 — a decade ...

The 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition stands as the founding event in the exhibition history of modern art on the West Coast. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco will celebrate the ...