San Francisco, the exposition city, 1915.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

World's Fairs and Expositions Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exhibitions--California--San Francisco.

Exhibitions--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.).

Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition (1884-1885 : New Orleans, La.).

World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition.

Exhibitions.

New Orleans (La.)--Description and travel.

San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel.

Louisiana--New Orleans.

California--San Francisco.

Penn Provenance:

Zinman, Michael (donor)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 17 x 18 cm

Other Title:

Cold blooded business proposition

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco] : [Cooper Advertising Co.], [1910?]

Notes:

Title from cover.

Publisher's place and name from back cover with date of issue suggested by internal evidence.

Booklet promoting the merits of San Francisco over New Orleans as the site for the proposed Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

Printed in double columns within red ruled border with a total of [24] columns on [12] pages. Spelled out page numbers printed at bottom from "Page One" to "Page Eight" do not reflect actual pagination.

Issued with pictorial wrappers printed in color and gilt with image of Uncle Sam shunning a woman representing New Orleans while offering a bouquet of roses to a woman representing San Francisco; image is captioned: No thank you, I danced with you in '84 and it was too expensive.

"New Orleans still owes the government $1,350,000 advanced to her disastrous International Exposition in 1884"

Back cover title: A cold blooded business proposition : who should succeed?

Cited in:

Selvaggio, M. World's Fairs Catalogue, 212

OCLC:

78044932