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Title: Tower of Jewels
Date Created and/or Issued: ca. 1915
Publication Information: Pacific Novelty Co
Contributing Institution: California State University, Fresno
Collection: Worlds Fair Collection
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Description: X-151
On verso: The Tower of Jewels is the dominating architectural feature of the Exposition. It is 433 feet high and covers more than an acre of ground. Through the base is a vaulted entrance 60 feet wide and 110 feet high. The tower is adorned with more than 90,000 specially prepared "Novagems" or "glass jewels," and, particularly at night, when the searchlights and other concealed lights are flashed on the tower, the effect is truly marvelous. the design is by Carrere and Hastings, New York.
Type: image
Format: 13.7 cm. x 8.6 cm.
Identifier: EXP915a.325pc
http://digitized.library.fresnostate.edu/cdm/ref/collection/worldsfair/id/14775
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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