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Title: Chinese Theatre and Hawaiian Village, California Midwinter International Exposition, San Francisco
Creator: Robinson, Frank Day
Contributor: Latta, Frank Forrest, 1892-
Date Created and/or Issued: 1894
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: A view of the Chinese Theatre and Hawaiian Village at the California Midwinter International Exposition in San Francisco. The theater is a two-story building with an additional two story tower in the style of a pagoda above the main entrance on the right. The large circular building on the right houses a cyclorama of "Kilauea, the burning volcano", in which visitors could stand in the center of a fully-surrounding painted vista of the landscape around the Kilauea volcano.
Date supplied by cataloger, based on the year of the Exposition. One of forty-eight glass plate negatives originally housed together with a note by Latta: "Frank Robinson Merced Area Misc. Unidentified."
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 Photograph : glass negative ; plate 11 x 13 cm
Identifier: mssLatta Skyfarming
466436
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/14656
Subject: California Midwinter International Exposition (1894 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Exhibition buildings--California--San Francisco--Photographs
Exhibitions--California--San Francisco--Photographs
Place: San Francisco (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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