Circular Of Information Panama Pacific International Exposition San Francisco 1915 Department Of Fine Arts Classic Reprint

Download or read book Circular of Information, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915, Department of Fine Arts (Classic Reprint) written by Panama-Pacific International Exposition and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Circular of Information, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915, Department of Fine Arts San Francisco was chosen by the Congress of the United States as the city in which the Exposition would be held. A committee of three in San Francisco selected a committee of three hundred, and this committee, in turn, elected a Board of Directors, thirty in number, and invested it with full con structive and executive powers. Funds for defraying the costs of the Exposition were acquired by a special California State tax to the amount of five million dollars; by a special municipal bond issue by the city of San Francisco for five million dollars; by a popular subscription of seven and a half million dollars; by contributions from the counties of California raised under an act empowering them to levy a special tax, and from other sources. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.