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Title: Official guide book of the Panama-California exposition, giving in detail, location and description of buildings, exhibits and concessions, with floor plans of the buildings and exterior views
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Panama-California Exposition Commission
Subjects: Panama-California Exposition (1915 : San Diego, Calif.)
Publisher: (San Diego, National views company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e to have the vacuum cleaner and the automaticpump, and the other necessities which would have caused the old time farmerswife to live a longer and happier life than was her lot. This is, perhaps, the most important single teaching of the whole agricul-tural show, and it augurs well for the back-to-the-land movement. This, too,is a good demonstration of the striking feature of the San Diego Exposition,which has cast off the clothes of the old time worlds fairs, and instead ofshowing merely the products which the old time fair showed, and which werediscernible every day in every city of the country, shows the processes by whichthese products are made. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY It was this idea which convinced the International Harvester Company thatit should make the largest display that it has ever made anywhere. It was thisidea which convinced Sir Thomas Lipton that he should make the only exhibit ofthe sort that he has ever made. It was this idea that decided manufacturers U2j
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VARIED INDUSTRIES BUILDING FROM ACROSS EL PRADO COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING IN THE BOTANICAL GARDENS from every section of the country to enter enthusiastically into the program ofthe San Diego Exposition, and participate in what is, not the largest worldsfair ever held, but the most interesting, as well as the most beautiful. The harvester exhibit is well worthy of careful examination. In the rearof the beautiful building lies the orchard which the harvester company itselflaid out in order that there might be demonstrated the most improved machineryfor orchard cultivation. This machinery is shown in operation. Back of theorchard, overhanging the Canon Cabrillo, is the open field where the grainand grass machinery is being operated. The company is showing the toolswherewith the desert is rapidly being changed into fruitful gardens. The southwestern territory contains fifty-two million acres of arable land,only eight million of which are being cultivated today, and while these eig

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