McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 012

Title: McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 012
Description: Caption: "Breaking of Ground Celebration," Oct 14, 1911, held in San Francisco for the planned Panama-Pacific International Exposition, which was slated to open in 1915. The Panama Pacific International Exposition was held to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, as well as inventive technologies and new industries from around the world. It was also a chance for San Francisco to show the world how the great city had rebuilt and thrived after the devastation of the 1906 earthquake and fire.
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 Francisco, California
Date: 1911
Format: JPEG, scanned at 400 DPI, 24-bit color
Identifier: 96-07-08-alb07-012
Language: English
Publisher: California State Archives, a division of the California Secretary of State's Office
Source: Image of an item within the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection (96-07-08)
Subject: Breaking of Ground Celebration for Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Type: Still Image