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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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