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Title: Palace of Machinery
Date Created and/or Issued: ca. 1915
Publication Information: Souvenir Guide Publishers
Contributing Institution: California State University, Fresno
Collection: Worlds Fair Collection
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Description: Note On verso: This building, which covers practically nine acres, and is the largest wooden structure in the world, was designed by Messrs. Ward and Blohme of San Francisco. Six million feet of lumber was required for sheathing it. Four carloads of nails and 1500 tons of bolts and washers were used in its construction. Cost $ 659,665.
Type: image
Format: 8.6 cm. x 13.7 cm.
Identifier: EXP915a.376pc
http://digitized.library.fresnostate.edu/cdm/ref/collection/worldsfair/id/14831
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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