The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition - A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural - Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Louis Christian Mullgardt
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Over six hundred acres are comprised in the elongated site on which the Exposition stands. Millions of people from all parts of the world have made pilgrimage to this realm of phantasy, and many thousands more are on their way, determined to bask in the radiance of Good Will toward All Mankind, which this Mecca of Peace, Enlightenment, Beauty, and Inspiration for a better and greater future gives forth. Its purposeful influence is destined to serve perpetually beneficent cause in the furtherance of unified international humanitarianism after the ephemeral vision of this Phantom Kingdom has vanished. L. C. Mullgardt. Illustrations and Descriptive Notes of the Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition Panorama Exposition from Presidio Heights From the vantage point of Presidio Heights, one may see this panorama of the Exposition and catch the symmetry of arrangement in the walls of the palaces, in the graceful lines of the towers and in the impressive contour of the domes. The effect is largely due to the ground plan, distinguished for its balance and poise, which was designed by Mr. |
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