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Title: Palace of Machinery
Publication Information: Pacific Novelty Co
Contributing Institution: California State University, Fresno
Collection: Worlds Fair Collection
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Description: X-164
On verso: This is the largest individual building in the Exposition, and indeed is the largest wooden frame building in the world, 967 feet in length by 367 feet in width and 121 feet high. Over 8,000,000 feet of lumber, 1,500 tons of steel bolts and washers were used in its construction. It covers approximately nine acres of floor space.
Type: image
Format: 8.5 cm. x 13.6 cm.
Identifier: EXP915a.525pc
http://digitized.library.fresnostate.edu/cdm/ref/collection/worldsfair/id/14961
Subject: Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Place: San Francisco, California
Source: Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs
Relation: World's Fair Collection

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