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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
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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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