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(PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION) An album with 25 photographs of San Francisco and important natural California settings intended to generate interest in the proposed exposition celebrating the completion of the Panama Canal. Including depictions of well-known San Francisco streets and establishments, such as the Hotel St. Francis, Market Street, Chinatown, Golden Gate Park, and Union Square, as well as depictions of California's important natural landscapes, including Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Lake Tahoe. Includes printed text about San Francisco and California as an ideal site for the exposition. Silver prints, the images measuring 6x8 inches (15.2x20.3 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets 9 1/4x11 1/4 inches (23.5x28.6 cm.), each with a printed caption, on recto. Oblong 4to, flexible morocco with the gilt-lettered recipient's name, Hon. Ben Johnson, on the front cover, slightly worn. Circa 1910
The photographs in this album were possibly taken by the San Francisco photographer H.C. Tibbitts, who published the book. The albums were meant as a marketing tool for the proposed Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915 and were distributed to influential society members. This one was intended for the Honorable Ben Johnson, a Kentucky Congressional Representative from 1907-1929.
