McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 071

Title: McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 071
Description: Caption: "San Diego Exposition," c. 1915-1916. View of an artificial lagoon, with the Commerce and Industries Building (tower at left, now called Casa de Balboa) and the Foreign Arts Building (tower at right, now called the House of Hospitality). The Panama-California Exposition was held in San Diego in 1915 and 1916 to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. It was smaller in scale and less well-funded than the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in 1915 in San Francisco. See also 96-07-08-alb04-111, and 112.
Contributor: Audrey Fullerton-Samora of Sacramento, great niece of William and Grace McCarthy, donated the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection to the California State Archives in 1996.
Coverage: San Diego, California
Date: 1915
Format: JPEG, scanned at 400 DPI, 24-bit color
Identifier: 96-07-08-alb05-071
Language: English
Publisher: California State Archives, a division of the California Secretary of State's Office
Source: Image from the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection (96-07-08)
Subject: Panama-California Exposition, San Diego
Type: Still Image