Exposition

1915 · rif. 60845 — San Francisco CA: Panama-Pacific International Exposition Co.; General Electric Co. 1915. 12mo. 3.8 x 8.2 in. 8 pp unpaginated. Self-printed softcovers black lettering on front cover minor shelfwear slight toning still VG copy from collection of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this rare lighting program detailing how D’Arcy’s lighting by refracting light through mirrors and thousands of Austrian Novagems and a myriad of searchlights enhanced and enthralled visitors to the buildings and courts of the famed Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco 1915. The created effects included special nightly light shows featuring the “Birth of Light” “Nebular Hypothesis” “The Aurora Borealis” “Fireless Fireworks” “Steam Serpents” “Spirit of the Twentieth Century” and “Birds of Paradise” featuring spectacular lighting across the Exposition and San Francisco Bay. Worldcat locates 8 copies Columbia CA State Lib. Sutro Autry Museum Bancroft Center for RL Ill Lake Forest Nat. Lib. of Australia; See: Gray Brechin The Architecture of the Fair: Lighting and Color Historical Essay Found SF Shaping San Francisco’s Digital Archive 2021; John Winthrop Hammond Lighting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Museum of the City of San Francisco 2021. [Panama-Pacific International Exposition Co.; General Electric Co.], paperback