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288 DAYSSan Francisco · 1915 ⌕
288 Days

Credits

Every picture, reel, recording and sound in the television cut of 288 Days (2:18:04): 341 pictures, 26 reels, 51 recordings and 28 sound effects, each with its title, author, source and license, and what the film did to it. Photographs were cropped to the frame, color-graded and enlarged for this film; each entry says which. Generated from the cut itself, so it changes when the cut does.

The closing photographs (3)Photographs under Creative Commons licenses (18)Photographs and plates in the public domain or dedicated to it (CC0) (298)Pictures behind quotations, titles and figures (20)Maps (2)Period recordings (21)Later recordings (1)Musical cues (29)Voices and sound effects (28)Films (26)

The closing photographs (3)

Ansel Adams, from the series Photographs of National Parks and Monuments, 1941 to 1942, made for the Department of the Interior and held by the National Archives. Public domain as the work of a United States government employee.

  • The Grand Canyon from the North Rim, 1941
    Title: “Ansel Adams - National Archives 79-AA-F14”
    Author: Ansel Adams
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 2:13:57
  • Evening, McDonald Lake, Glacier National Park, 1942
    Title: “Ansel Adams - National Archives 79-AA-E06”
    Author: Ansel Adams
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 2:14:13
  • The Tetons and the Snake River, 1942
    Title: “Adams The Tetons and the Snake River”
    Author: Ansel Adams
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 2:14:21

Photographs under Creative Commons licenses (18)

These licenses ask for credit. Each is named in the film's end credits as well, with its title, author and license.

  • The tower stood four blocks inland from here, today
    Title: “San Francisco (CA, USA), Marina Boulevard -- 2012 -- 4308”
    Author: Dietmar Rabich
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: CC BY-SA 4.0
    Modified: cropped
    In the film at 3:20, 2:10:54
  • The Arch of the Setting Sun, 1915
    Title: “Panama-Pacific International Exposition – Arch of the setting sun, court of the universe”
    Author: Arkiv i Nordland
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from AIN.A15.104.p0042)
    License: CC BY 2.0
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 33:26
  • The Scintillator over the Marina, a 1915 postcard
    Title: “Panama-Pacific International Exposition – The Scintillator and Tower of Progress”
    Author: Arkiv i Nordland
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from AIN.A15.104.p0031)
    License: CC BY 2.0
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 46:52
  • The Legion of Honor, a copy of the French Pavilion
    Title: “Legion of Honor at night”
    Author: Frank Schulenburg
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: CC BY-SA 4.0
    Modified: cropped
    In the film at 52:21
  • Fort Mason, today
    Title: “Fort Mason Pier at Sunset”
    Author: Sunzal1
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: CC BY-SA 4.0
    In the film at 59:27
  • A French fifty-centime piece, 1888
    Title: “F165 50 centimes 1888 A”
    Author: Jean-Michel Moullec
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from F165 50 centimes 1888 A)
    License: CC BY 2.0
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:09:28
  • The Exposition Auditorium, today Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
    Title: “Exposition Auditorium”
    Author: Teemu008
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Exposition Auditorium)
    License: CC BY-SA 2.0
    Modified: cropped
    In the film at 1:15:45
  • The bronze End of the Trail at Mooney Grove, Visalia, today
    Title: “END OF THE TRAIL”
    Author: Dbecker52
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: CC BY-SA 4.0
    Modified: graded
    In the film at 1:57:22
  • Weinman's Descending Night, one of the small bronzes he cast to sell
    Title: “Descending Night”
    Author: Smithsonian American Art Museum
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: CC BY-SA 4.0
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:57:22
  • The Palace of Fine Arts at the blue hour, today
    Title: “The Palace of Fine Arts during the blue hour at sunset in San Francisco, CA”
    Author: Debbie Tee
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: CC BY-SA 4.0
    In the film at 1:59:34
  • The Palace of Fine Arts at night
    Title: “Nighttime at the Palace of Fine Arts, in San Francisco, CA”
    Author: Debbie Tee
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: CC BY-SA 4.0
    Modified: graded
    In the film at 1:59:34
  • Crissy Field, on the fair's race track, today
    Title: “Crissy Field”
    Author: Bernt Rostad
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Crissy Field)
    License: CC BY 2.0
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 2:02:21
  • The Marina's houses, today
    Title: “Marina district houses, San Francisco, CA, USA (2)”
    Author: l0da_ralta
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Marina district houses, San Francisco, CA, USA Uploaded by v.dzhingarova)
    License: CC BY 2.0
    In the film at 2:03:03
  • Marina Boulevard, today
    Title: “145 and 151 Marina Boulevard, San Francisco”
    Author: Patrick Nouhailler
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from panoramio.com)
    License: CC BY-SA 3.0
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 2:03:03
  • The Yacht Harbor, whose breakwater is the Scintillator's mole, today
    Title: “Marina Yacht Harbor San Francisco January 2014 002”
    Author: King of Hearts
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: CC BY-SA 4.0
    In the film at 2:03:27
  • Youth soccer on the Marina Green, today
    Title: “Children soccer competition at Marina Green, San Francisco 6”
    Author: Guillaume Paumier
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: CC BY-SA 3.0
    Modified: enlarged
    In the film at 2:05:39
  • The tidal marsh at Crissy Field, today
    Title: “Golden Gate Bridge Crissy field marsh ＠ 冬霧の 晴れて水天 ターコイズ”
    Author: Yoshio Kohara
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from web.archive.org)
    License: CC BY 3.0
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 2:05:59
  • The Crissy Field marsh
    Title: “Crissy Field Marsh (16860p)”
    Author: Rhododendrites
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: CC BY-SA 4.0
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 2:05:59

Photographs and plates in the public domain or dedicated to it (CC0) (298)

In the order they first appear. Most are plates printed in the fair's own books, scanned by the Internet Archive.

  • Lithograph panorama, 1915
    Title: “Panorama of the Panama Pacific Exposition San Francisco California 1915”
    Author: George W. Melville
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University [2])
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped
    In the film at 2:01
  • A court at night under the searchlights, 1915
    Title: “The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the”
    Author: Internet Archive Book Images
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition (1921), via Wikimedia Commons / Internet Archive)
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 2:21
  • The Tower of Jewels by night, postcard
    Title: “Tower jewels lighted”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, enlarged
    In the film at 2:29
  • The fair at night, from the hills. W. W. Swank, 1915
    Title: “Night view of Panama-Pacific International Exposition grounds, San Francisco, California”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
    License: No known restrictions on publication
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 2:49
  • The Palace of Fine Arts and the Marina from the air, today
    Title: “Aerial view of The Palace of Fine Arts”
    Author: Sasha Zvereva
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from unsplash.com)
    License: CC0
    Modified: cropped
    In the film at 3:12
  • The phoenix on the city flag
    Title: “Flag of San Francisco, California”
    Author: Original Author: Vector-Images.com Converted
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from vector-images.com)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 3:32, 2:12:16
  • Ruins after the earthquake and fire, 1906, Arnold Genthe
    Title: “Ruins after San Francisco earthquake, 1906 - Genthe. LCCN00652579”
    Author: Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942, photographer
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 3:32
  • The Palace of Fine Arts, 1915
    Title: “PalaceofFineArts1915”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 3:32
  • San Francisco in 1915, the Exposition to the north
    Title: “San francisco 1915”
    Author: US Geological Survey
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from legacy.lib.utexas.edu)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 5:16
  • The Bay and the fair from Vallejo Street, under construction, 1914
    Title: “Bay and Exposition from 2626 Vallejo St., San Francisco”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
    License: No known restrictions on publication
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 5:41, 2:09:47
  • The Golden Gate, open water, 1900
    Title: “The Golden Gate and Mount Tamalpais from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco Bay Area, California, 1900”
    Author: Detroit Publishing Co.
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 6:58
  • A bird's-eye view of the main group, 1914
    Title: “Aeroplane view main group of exhibit palaces Panama-Pacific International Exposition LCCN93506551”
    Author: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 7:26
  • Faville's sixteenth-century Spanish portal, repeated on the four palaces of the north front
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Ben Macomber, The Jewel City (1915) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 7:26
  • The main group from the Palace of Horticulture
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 7:26
  • The Court of Abundance in color, 1915, autochrome by Arnold Genthe
    Title: “[Pan-Pacific International Exposition]”
    Author: Arnold Genthe
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: CC0
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 9:21
  • The Arch of the Setting Sun in color, 1915
    Title: “The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the”
    Author: Charles J. Belden
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 9:21
  • The Tower of Jewels over the Court of the Universe, autochrome by Charles J. Belden, 1915
    Title: “The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the”
    Author: Charles J. Belden
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition (1921), via Wikimedia Commons / Internet Archive)
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 9:21
  • Guérin's colors: Scudder's Young Pan in the Fine Arts peristyle
    Title: “The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the”
    Author: Internet Archive Book Images
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition (1921), via Wikimedia Commons / Internet Archive)
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 11:02
  • The Arch of the Setting Sun, in period color
    Title: “The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the”
    Author: Internet Archive Book Images
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition (1921), via Wikimedia Commons / Internet Archive)
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 11:02
  • The doorway to the Court of Palms, in period color
    Title: “The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the”
    Author: Internet Archive Book Images
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition (1921), via Wikimedia Commons / Internet Archive)
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 11:02
  • The Fountain of Energy, autochrome, 1915
    Title: “Fountain of Energy”
    Author: Alexander Stirling Calder
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from si.edu)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 11:17
  • The South Gardens, in period color
    Title: “The South Gardens (color plate)”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 11:17
  • The Arch of the Rising Sun, in period color
    Title: “The Arch of the Rising Sun (color plate)”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 11:17
  • The grounds under construction, May 1, 1914
    Title: “View of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition grounds, May 1, 1914”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from loc.gov)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 12:01
  • The Palace of Education nearing completion, 1914
    Title: “Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1914, San Francisco, California, Palace of Education LCCN2016650361”
    Author: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 12:01
  • The staff factory in the Palace of Fine Arts
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. II (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 12:01
  • The Post Office's Panama-Pacific stamps, 1913
    Title: “Panama-Pacific Issues of 1915”
    Author: U.S. Post Office -- U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing -- Designer: Clair Aubrey Huston
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, enlarged
    In the film at 14:57
  • Balboa takes possession of the Pacific, engraving, 1726
    Title: “Vasco Nunez de Balboa taking possession of the Pacific Ocean; with inset bust profile LCCN2006691881”
    Author: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, enlarged
    In the film at 14:57
  • Sacramento Street, April 18, 1906, by Arnold Genthe
    Title: “San Francisco Fire Sacramento Street 1906-04-18”
    Author: Arnold Genthe
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 15:39, 2:03:27
  • San Francisco after the earthquake, 1906
    Title: “Aftermath of San Francisco earthquake, 1906”
    Author: Genthe, Arnold
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 15:39
  • The burned-out St. Francis Hotel, 1906
    Title: “Photograph of St. Francis Hotel After the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, 1906”
    Author: The U.S. National Archives
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 15:39
  • An Exposition meeting, Merchants Exchange, 1910
    Title: “2nd meeting of the Panama Pacific Exposition at Merchants Exchange Building, S.F. LCCN2013646889”
    Author: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 18:04
  • The directors of the Exposition
    Title: “The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the”
    Author: Internet Archive Book Images
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition (1921), via Wikimedia Commons / Internet Archive)
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 18:42
  • The Logical Point, New Orleans's bid for the fair, October 1910
    Title: “The Logical Point - New Orleans October 1910”
    Author: Uncredited for committee bidding for New Orleans to host the 1915 Panama Exposition
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from via [1])
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 19:38
  • The New Willard Hotel, Washington, about 1904
    Title: “Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 19:38
  • Los Angeles, Broadway at Fourth Street, about 1910
    Title: “Broadway and Fourth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1908-1910 (CHS-2616)”
    Author: Bailey
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from digitallibrary.usc.edu)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 20:29
  • Santa Barbara, about 1900
    Title: “Detroit Photographic Company (0123) - Santa Barbara, California”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library , Yale University ( [1] ).)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 20:29
  • La Laguna Espejada, the Mirror Pool, San Diego, 1915
    Title: “Official Views San Diego Panama-California Exposition San Diego All the Year 1915 (1915)”
    Author: Published by Panama-California Exposition
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Official Views, San Diego: Panama-California Exposition (1915), via the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons)
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 20:29
  • President Taft, who would have to sign it
    Title: “William Howard Taft, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right LCCN99400595”
    Author: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 21:20
  • The House of Representatives in session, 1911
    Title: “House in session. May 1911”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
    License: No known restrictions on publication
    Modified: graded
    In the film at 22:00
  • Congressman William A. Rodenberg of Illinois, who spoke for New Orleans
    Title: “WilliamARodenberg”
    Author: Harris & Ewing
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Library of Congress)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 22:00
  • Congressman Julius Kahn of San Francisco
    Title: “Portrait of Julius Kahn”
    Author: Harris & Ewing
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from The World's Work, 1919: https://archive.org/stream/worldswork38gard#page/342/mode/2up)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 22:00
  • Congressman Joseph R. Knowland of California, who read out Oakland's pledge
    Title: “Knowland, Hon. J.R.”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
    License: No known restrictions on publication
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 22:00
  • The campaign poster: California Invites the World
    Title: “"California Invites the World" Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, Cal. U.S.A., ”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
    License: No known restrictions on publication
    Modified: graded
    In the film at 22:00
  • Taft breaks ground in the Golden Gate Park Stadium, October 14, 1911
    Title: “President Taft breaking ground at San Francisco on October 14, 1911, for the Panama Pacific International Exposition LCCN94507785”
    Author: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 23:41
  • Lillian Nordica
    Title: “Madame Nordica (Lillian Norton)”
    Author: Unknown photographer
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Gallery of Players from The Illustrated American https://archive.org/details/galleryofplayers00brer)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 23:41
  • The official souvenir of the groundbreaking, 1911
    Title: “Official souvenir of groundbreaking by President Taft at Panama Pacific International Exposition”
    Author: J.C. Terry (signed)
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 23:41
  • San Francisco, from a 1915 map
    Title: “FMIB 41447 San Francisco showing location of Panama Pacific International Exposition 1915”
    Author: American Association for the Advancement of Science: Pacific Coast Committee
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 24:31
  • Inspecting the hydraulic fill
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. I (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 25:09, 2:03:27
  • Panorama of the fair, December 1914
    Title: “Tentoonstellingen, SFA022010235”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from beeldbank.spaarnestadphoto.com)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 25:09
  • The Esplanade from Administration Avenue
    Author: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, official view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915),
    Source: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, official view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 25:09
  • The Exposition map, 1915
    Title: “Panama-Pacific International Exposition map”
    Author: US
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from USGS topo)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 25:49
  • The site in March 1912
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. I (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 25:49
  • Making land: the hydraulic fill, 1912
    Title: “Making land where the Exposition arose: the hydraulic fill”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. I (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 26:34, 2:03:27
  • The palaces standing on the new ground, from the Palace of Education, 1914
    Title: “Panorama from top, Education Bldg., looking east”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
    License: No known restrictions on publication
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 26:34
  • The yacht harbor and the palaces going up, April 1, 1914
    Title: “Panorama of the Yacht Harbor, April 1, 1914”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
    License: No known restrictions on publication
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 27:46
  • From the South Gardens, June 21, 1914
    Title: “Panorama taken from the south gardens, June 21st, 1914”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
    License: No known restrictions on publication
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 27:46
  • The South Gardens, March 20, 1914
    Title: “Panorama showing south gardens, 3/20/14”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
    License: No known restrictions on publication
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 27:46
  • The grounds on February 20, 1914, one year before opening day
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
    License: No known restrictions on publication
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 27:46
  • The Esplanade and the New York State building
    Author: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, official view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915),
    Source: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, official view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 28:44
  • A Fageol auto train under the arches, 1915
    Title: “Fageol Trackless Train 1915”
    Author: Binksternet
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from archive.org)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 28:44
  • The staff-modeling crew at work
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. I (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 29:52
  • Perham Nahl's poster: the thirteenth labor of Hercules
    Title: “Perham Nahl's Hercules poster, The Thirteenth Labor of Hercules, 1913-14”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. II (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 29:58
  • The Service Building, the Exposition's offices on the grounds
    Title: “The Service Building”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. II (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 29:58
  • Gardening with a derrick: moving a full-grown tree
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. I (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 31:09
  • Live-stock day before the race-track grandstand, on the Presidio, 1915
    Title: “The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the”
    Author: Internet Archive Book Images
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition (1921), via Wikimedia Commons / Internet Archive)
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 31:22, 2:03:27
  • The G Exposition streetcar at the Presidio, 1915
    Title: “G Exposition streetcar at the Presidio, 1915 - postcard”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from eBay item 185763183836 – View/save archived versions on archive.org and megalodon.jp)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 31:22
  • The grounds under construction, 1914
    Title: “Main Exhibit Palaces, April 18, 1914”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
    License: No known restrictions on publication
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 32:16, 49:40, 49:45
  • Framing the Tower of Jewels
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. II (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 32:16
  • The grounds from the hills above, 1914
    Title: “Bird's-eye view of the grounds and buildings, 1914”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
    License: No known restrictions on publication
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 32:16
  • An arch of the Court of the Universe, 1915
    Title: “The Great Arches of the Court of the Universe”
    Author: Mississippi Department of Archives and History
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from flickr.com)
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 33:26
  • Willis Polk, chairman of the architectural council
    Title: “Wpolk2”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 33:26, 37:41
  • The planned fair, drawn in 1913
    Title: “Birds-eye view, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1913”
    Author: Panama-Pacific International Exposition Co.
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from San Francisco Architectural Club - Yearbook 1913 https://archive.org/details/sanfranarch1913unse)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 33:26
  • The Arch of the Rising Sun, 1915
    Title: “Visitors by a fountain in the Court of the Universe, the Arch of the Rising Sun behind”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 33:26
  • Through the arches of the Court of the Universe
    Title: “Pictures taken on trip to Canada and west 1915”
    Author: Mississippi Department of Archives and History
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from flickr.com)
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 34:06
  • Making a Mongolian warrior for the Arch of the Rising Sun
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. I (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 34:06
  • The Arch of the Setting Sun
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 34:06
  • The Arch of the Setting Sun, from the court
    Title: “The Arch of the Setting Sun”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. II (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 34:38
  • The Nations of the West, with Enterprise and the Heroes of Tomorrow above the wagon
    Title: “The Nations of the West”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 34:38
  • The Nations of the East, the sheik and the prince, and the two figures listed as slaves
    Title: “The Nations of the East”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 34:38, 1:54:47
  • Thomas Hastings, architect
    Title: “Thomas Hastings architect”
    Author: Unknown author.
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from digitalgallery.nypl.org)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 35:37
  • The Tower of Jewels by Thomas Hastings
    Author: Internet Archive Book Images
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 35:37
  • The Fountain of Energy and the Tower of Jewels, 1915
    Title: “Fountain of Energy and Tower of Jewels 1915”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Views of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition vol. 2 (San Francisco: Cardinell-Vincent Co., 1915).)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 35:37
  • The Palace of Horticulture and the Tower of Jewels
    Title: “Palace horticulture tower jewels”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from National Park Service)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 35:37
  • Charles Niehaus's Cortez, before the Tower of Jewels
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Ben Macomber, The Jewel City (1915) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 35:37
  • The Tower of Jewels, by Willard Worden
    Title: “Willard Worden, Tower of Jewels, 1915”
    Author: Willard Worden
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from famsf.org)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 36:35
  • Fraser's The End of the Trail
    Title: “End of the Trail, by James Earle Fraser”
    Author: Internet Archive Book Images
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 37:18
  • Visitors in one of the fair's courts, 1915
    Title: “Pictures taken on trip to Canada and west 1915”
    Author: Mississippi Department of Archives and History
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from flickr.com)
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 37:18
  • The Palace of Fine Arts and its lagoon, 1915
    Title: “The Palace of Fine Arts”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 37:41
  • Bernard Maybeck, in 1919
    Title: “Bernard Maybeck by Slevin (1919)”
    Author: Louis S. Slevin
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Calisphere, "Photograph of Bernard Maybeck, Architect")
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 37:41, 39:23
  • The lagoon facade, from The Evanescent City, 1915
    Title: “Columns and Lagoon - Palace of Fine Arts”
    Author: poem by George Sterling, illustrations after photographs by Francis Bruguiere, cover in color after the painting by Will Sparks
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from "The Evanescent City" ( https://archive.org/details/TheEvanescentCity ))
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 38:43
  • Steel arches of the Palace of Fine Arts
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. II (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 38:43
  • The rotunda of the Palace of Fine Arts, with Bruno Louis Zimm's frieze
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Ben Macomber, The Jewel City (1915) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 38:43
  • The colonnade and its planter boxes, 1915
    Title: “Pictures taken on trip to Canada and west 1915 (cropped)”
    Author: Mississippi Department of Archives and History
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from flickr.com)
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 38:43
  • The rotunda, from The Evanescent City, 1915
    Title: “Columns and Rotunda - Palace of Fine Arts”
    Author: poem by George Sterling, illustrations after photographs by Francis Bruguiere, cover in color after the painting by Will Sparks
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from "The Evanescent City" ( https://archive.org/details/TheEvanescentCity ))
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 39:43
  • The Palace of Fine Arts, on a postcard
    Title: “Palace of Fine Arts Postcard from the Panama-Pacific Exposition”
    Author: Pacific Novelty Co.
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from siarchives.si.edu)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 39:43
  • The Tower of Jewels and the Italian towers illuminated
    Title: “The Tower of Jewels and Italian towers illuminated”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 40:47
  • The Palace of Horticulture illuminated
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 40:47
  • The Arch of the Setting Sun by night
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. II (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 40:47
  • A lighted corridor in the Court of Palms
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. II (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 40:47
  • The Italian towers illuminated, 1915
    Title: “Italian towers illuminated”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 41:58
  • The cloister piers of the Court of Abundance
    Title: “The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the”
    Author: Internet Archive Book Images
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition (1921), via Wikimedia Commons / Internet Archive)
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 41:58
  • Portugal's Pavilion by night
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 41:58
  • An official souvenir novagem
    Title: “NOVAGEMS - Public Domain”
    Author: Lisafern
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: CC0
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 43:47, 1:56:24
  • The Tower of Jewels at night
    Title: “Tower jewels night”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, enlarged
    In the film at 43:47
  • The fair on a 1911 card, before it had its nickname
    Title: “Panama Pacific 1915 International Exposition, San Francisco, California”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
    License: No known restrictions on publication
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 45:01
  • Delilah L. Beasley, about 1919
    Title: “Delilah Beasley, c1919 (2)”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection, UCLA Library Digital Collections, https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/z1wt0b9d)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 45:01, 1:40:10
  • Virginia Stephens, who Beasley says named the fair
    Title: “Virginia Stephens, who Beasley says first sent in the name Jewel City”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Delilah L. Beasley, The Negro Trail Blazers of California (1919), p.76 (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1919, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 45:31, 46:45
  • Virginia Stephens, from the plate in Beasley
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Delilah L. Beasley, The Negro Trail Blazers of California (1919) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1919, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 45:31
  • Willard Worden's Arch of the Rising Sun at night, 1915
    Title: “Willard Worden, Arch of the Rising Sun at Night, 1915”
    Author: Willard Worden
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from famsf.org)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 46:52
  • Night illumination panorama
    Author: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, official view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915),
    Source: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, official view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 46:52
  • From the Court of the Four Seasons toward the Scintillator
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 46:52
  • The illuminated fair from the bay
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 46:52
  • The exhibit palaces lit at night, 1915
    Title: “The main group of exhibit palaces at night”
    Author: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, official view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915),
    Source: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, official view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 49:03
  • The Canadian Pavilion, 1915
    Title: “Canadian Pavilion, Pan-Pacific Exposition 1915”
    Author: Pacific Novelty Co.
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Self-scanned)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 49:50
  • The pavilion of Norway
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 49:50
  • The Pavilion of Denmark
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 49:50
  • The Netherlands Pavilion
    Title: “W. Kromhout Dutch pavilion int. exhib. SF 1915”
    Author: Anonymous (photographer)
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from libserv.tudelft.nl)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 49:50
  • The Dutch rooms at the Exposition, 1915
    Title: “Nederlandse zalen op de Panama-Pacific International exposition te San Francisco, 1915, RP-F-W-2197-A”
    Author: Rijksmuseum
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from hdl.handle.net)
    License: CC0
    Modified: graded
    In the film at 49:50
  • The Argentine pavilion
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 49:50
  • Berlin, July 31, 1914: the state of war read out on Unter den Linden
    Title: “Erklaerung des Kriegszustandes 1914”
    Author: Hermann Rex (1884–1937)
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Der Weltkrieg in seiner rauhen Wirklichkeit. Das Frontkämpferwerk. Oberammergau 1926. S. 6.)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 50:37
  • Charles C. Moore, with John A. Britton and Frank G. Drum, 1914
    Title: “John A. Britton, Charles C. Moore and Frank G. Drum 1914”
    Author: Internet Archive Book Images
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 50:37
  • The Chinese Pavilion, dedicated March 9, 1915
    Title: “China's Pavilion”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 51:19
  • The Siam Pavilion, 1915
    Title: “An autochrome of the Siam Pavilion at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition”
    Author: National Museum of American History
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from americanhistory.si.edu)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 51:19
  • The Pavilion of Cuba
    Title: “Panama-Pacific International Exposition - Pavilion of Cuba”
    Author: Curt Teich & Co.
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Digital scan of postcard)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 51:19
  • A lion at the Legion of Honor, today
    Title: “California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California LCCN2013630747”
    Author: Carol M. Highsmith
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 52:21
  • The Pavilion of France, the Legion of Honor copied for the fair
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 52:21
  • Woodrow Wilson, 1912
    Title: “President Woodrow Wilson portrait December 2 1912”
    Author: Pach Brothers, New York
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 56:14
  • The Tower of Jewels, 1915
    Title: “TowerofJewels”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Personal Collection)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 56:14
  • Opening day crowds at A. Stirling Calder's Fountain of Energy, South Gardens
    Title: “Opening-day crowds in the South Gardens, by the Fountain of Energy”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 56:14, 2:08:25
  • Lincoln Beachey aloft, about 1910
    Title: “Lincoln Beachy aloft LCCN2014689768”
    Author: Bain News Service, publisher
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 56:14
  • Lincoln Beachey flies under the bridge at Niagara Falls, June 27, 1911
    Title: “Lincoln Beachey at Niagara”
    Author: Photo Speciality Co.
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 57:22
  • Beachey's indoor flight in the Palace of Machinery, 1915
    Title: “Lincoln Beachey's first indoor aeroplane flight, in the Palace of Machinery”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. II (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 57:22
  • The Beachey-Eaton monoplane, 1915
    Title: “AL17 Warren Eaton Photo 000525”
    Author: SDASM Archives
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from AL17_Warren Eaton Photo_000525)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 58:01
  • Lincoln Beachey, 1914
    Title: “Lincoln Beachey LCCN2001704159”
    Author: George Grantham Bain Collection
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 58:01
  • Cyrus E. Dallin's The Scout, with the Palace of Fine Arts behind
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 59:57
  • Art Smith, March 1915
    Title: “Art Smith (pilot) 1915”
    Author: Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer.
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from hdl.loc.gov)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:00:59
  • Art Smith and a Mr. Ozaki, about 1915
    Title: “Art. Smith & Mr. Ozaki LCCN2014701573”
    Author: Bain News Service, publisher
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:00:59
  • Crowds on the Avenue of Palms, 1915
    Title: “Crowds on the Avenue of Palms”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:03:01
  • The exhibit palaces from the air
    Title: “Aeroplane view of the main group of exhibit palaces, a printed aerial view”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
    License: No known restrictions on publication
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:04:02
  • Down in the mine, Palace of Mines and Metallurgy
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. IV (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:04:02
  • Italian motor cars in the Palace of Transportation
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. IV (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:04:02
  • Washington's exhibit in the Palace of Food Products
    Title: “FMIB 34467 Washington State Exhibit in the Palace of Food Products, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California”
    Author: State of Washington Department of Fisheries and Game
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:04:02
  • Inside the Palace of Transportation
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:05:15
  • An entrance to the Palace of Food Products
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. II (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:05:51
  • Ford's assembly line, Palace of Transportation
    Title: “The automobile assembling plant in the Palace of Transportation”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. IV (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:06:51
  • The transfer table in the Palace of Transportation
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. II (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:06:51
  • The mammoth Underwood typewriter
    Title: “The mammoth typewriter”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. IV (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:07:29, 1:56:24
  • Bell opens the transcontinental line, 1915
    Title: “Alexander Graham Bell, first transcontinental phone call, 25 Jan 1915”
    Author: Irving Underhill
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Bonham's)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:08:10
  • Thomas and Mina Edison listening at the telephone exhibit, October 21, 1915
    Title: “Thomas Edison and Mina Edison at the AT&T Palace of Liberal Arts, Panama-Pacific Exposition grounds in San Francisco, listening by telephone to a Diamond Disc Phonograph being played in West Orange.”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from NPGallery)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:08:10
  • The transcontinental telephone theater in the Palace of Liberal Arts
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. IV (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:08:10
  • Farran Zerbe, about 1908
    Title: “Farran Zerbe (ca. 1908)”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:09:28
  • Zerbe's Money of the World exhibit, Palace of Liberal Arts, 1915
    Title: “Zerbe exhibit”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from "The Story of the Exposition", volume 4 , plate preceding page 115)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:09:28
  • The Nevada Building
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:10:55
  • Dedication Day in the Court of the Universe, March 24, 1915
    Title: “Dedication Day at the Panama Pacific International Exposition, 1915-03-24”
    Author: P.P.I.E. Co; Cardinell Vincent Co
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:11:14
  • The Exposition Auditorium's convention halls, plan, 1914
    Title: “Auditorium of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition”
    Author: Internet Archive Book Images
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:11:14
  • The Palace of Education
    Title: “The Palace of Education, showing the half-dome of Philosophy”
    Author: Internet Archive Book Images
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:11:14
  • John Philip Sousa at the fair, 1915
    Title: “John Philip Sousa in uniform at the Exposition, 1915”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
    License: No known restrictions on publication
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:12:14
  • Sousa with a visitor at the fair, 1915
    Title: “Sousa talking to a woman, San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exposition”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
    License: No known restrictions on publication
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:12:14
  • Sousa and Saint-Saëns at the fair
    Title: “John Philip Sousa and Camille Saint-Saëns, 1915”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division (LC-USZ62-104650)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:12:21
  • Festival Hall, filled for a concert
    Title: “PPIE1915 Festival Hall Interior”
    Author: Charles C. Moore (Charles Caldwell), 1868–1932
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from content.cdlib.org)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:12:21, 2:08:25
  • Festival Hall at night, painted by William Barr
    Title: “William Barr Panama Pacific International Exposition Festival Hall”
    Author: William Barr
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from bonhams.com)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:12:21
  • Camille Saint-Saëns in November 1913
    Author: Internet Archive Book Images
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:12:21
  • The South Gardens, 1915
    Title: “Pictures taken on trip to Canada and west 1915”
    Author: Mississippi Department of Archives and History
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from flickr.com)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:13:48
  • The Tower of Jewels, on a 1915 photograph postcard
    Title: “Tower jewels postcard”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:13:48
  • The South Gardens from the Palace of Horticulture
    Author: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, official view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915),
    Source: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, official view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:13:48
  • The South Gardens
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:13:48
  • The Avenue of Palms
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:13:48
  • Festival Hall, the organ and the Boston Symphony
    Title: “Festival Hall, the domed concert hall that held the Exposition organ”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:14:37
  • Karl Muck, who conducted the Boston Symphony
    Title: “Karl Muck 1”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from (1913-1914) Programme , 1913&1914, Boston : Boston Symphony Orchestra, pp. 1,582 Retrieved from Google Books: link , scanned by Google Books)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:14:37
  • Festival Hall and the South Gardens pool at night
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:14:37
  • Festival Hall as designed, on a 1915 postcard
    Title: “Festival hall 1915”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:15:33
  • The Exposition Auditorium, where the choirs sang
    Title: “San Francisco Auditorium LCCN2014710854”
    Author: Bain News Service, publisher
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:17:06
  • The Liberty Bell arrives, July 1915
    Title: “The Liberty Bell arrives”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:18:53
  • James Beauchamp Clark, called Champ
    Title: “Portrait of James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark”
    Author: Boris B. Gordon
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from history.house.gov)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded
    In the film at 1:18:53
  • The Bell in the Pennsylvania Building
    Title: “Liberty Bell hb096nb0z7-FID616”
    Author: Moore, Charles C. (Charles Caldwell), 1868-1932
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from content.cdlib.org)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:18:53
  • Farewell to the Liberty Bell, November 10, 1915
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:18:53
  • Helen Keller, about 1904
    Title: “Helen Keller (circa 1904)”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:20:50, 1:21:21
  • The Palace of Education across the lagoon
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:20:50
  • Congressional Union members at the fair, April 1915
    Title: “Group indoor photograph of National Woman's Party members wearing hats and suffrage sashes. Left to right: (front, seated) May Wright Sewall, Kate Waller Barrett, (rear, standing) Anita Whitney, Mary Bear, Vivian Pierce, Margaret Whittemore.”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:21:38
  • Sara Bard Field, Maria Kindberg and Ingeborg Kindstedt with the car, 1915
    Title: “Suffrage envoy Sara Bard Field 159034v”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from hdl.loc.gov)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:21:38
  • The envoys at the Utah State Capitol, October 1915
    Title: “1915105 ntl-suffrage-envoy-visits-ut-capitol national-womans-party web2000”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from visitutah.com)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:21:38
  • The Court of Palms, 1915
    Title: “Court of Palms. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, Cal., 1915”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
    License: No known restrictions on publication
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:22:59
  • Dr. Mariana Bertola, a Director of the Woman's Board
    Title: “Dr. Mariana Bertola”
    Author: Unknown photographer
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:23:15
  • Mrs. Laurance Irving Scott, a Director
    Title: “Mrs. Laurance Irving Scott (Caro Crockett)”
    Author: Unknown photographer
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:23:15
  • Anna Pratt Simpson (Mrs. Ernest S. Simpson), who wrote the Board's history
    Title: “Mrs. Ernest S. Simpson (Problems Women Solved, 1915)”
    Author: Photographer not named.
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:23:15
  • The Y.W.C.A. Building, 1915
    Title: “PPIE Y.W.C.A. Building recto”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Ebay.com)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:24:01, 2:08:25
  • A general view in the Palace of Education
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. IV (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:24:01, 1:24:49
  • Iowa House
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:25:18
  • Taft Day, Court of the Universe, September 1915
    Title: “Taft Day in the Court of the Universe, September 1915”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:25:53
  • The palaces and the Tower lit at night, 1915
    Title: “Night illumination of the palaces”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:26:21
  • Goethals Day, September 1915
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:26:21
  • Edison and Ford at the fair
    Title: “Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford hb096nb0z7-FID678”
    Author: Moore, Charles C. (Charles Caldwell), 1868-1932
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from content.cdlib.org)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:27:07
  • Edison and Ford in a crowd at the fair, 1915
    Title: “Thomas Edison and Henry Ford in a crowd at the Panama-Pacific Exposition.”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from NPGallery)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:27:07
  • Edison and Ford in the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy, 1915
    Title: “Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford touring the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, California.”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from NPGallery)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:27:07
  • Edison receives the Exposition medal in Festival Hall, October 21, 1915
    Title: “Edison receiving the Exposition medal in Festival Hall, October 21, 1915”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:27:46
  • Moore presents Edison's commemorative plaque, 1915
    Title: “Thomas Edison receiving commemorative plaque from President C.C. Moore of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in festival hall.”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from NPGallery)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:27:46
  • Henry Ford and Thomas Edison at Edison's 1871 telegraph perforator, 1915
    Title: “Thomas Edison and Henry Ford looking at Edison Telegraph Perforator (1871-1872) on display at Panama-Pacific Exposition.”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from NPGallery)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:28:26
  • Edison and Ford at the Edison storage battery display
    Title: “Thomas Edison, right, Henry Ford, fourth from right, and others at display of Edison Storage Battery cells at Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from NPGallery)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:28:26
  • Edison with children at the fair
    Title: “Thomas Edison with a group of children at the Panama-Pacific Exposition.”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from NPGallery)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:28:26
  • Roscoe Arbuckle at the rail, 1921
    Title: “Fatty : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]”
    Author: Agence Rol. Agence photographique (commanditaire)
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Bibliothèque nationale de France)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:30:09
  • The Arbuckle trial, 1921
    Title: “Roscoe Arbuckle Trial - 1921”
    Author: Unknown photographer, Underwood & Underwood
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:30:09
  • The Aeroscope over the Zone
    Title: “Aeroscope Postcard from the Panama-Pacific Exposition”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from siarchives.si.edu)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, enlarged
    In the film at 1:31:03
  • Japan Beautiful and its gilded Buddha, the Zone, 1915
    Title: “Japan Beautiful, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915”
    Author: Cardinell-Vincent Company
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from oac.cdlib.org)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, enlarged
    In the film at 1:31:03
  • The entrance to Thompson's Scenic Railway, the first Zone concession to open
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, enlarged
    In the film at 1:31:03
  • The cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg on the Zone
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, enlarged
    In the film at 1:31:03
  • The Aeroscope, the Zone's sky ride, on its bascule arm
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:32:14
  • The Zone
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:32:14
  • The Zone from the Aeroscope, 1915
    Title: “The Zone from the Aeroscope”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. II (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:32:57
  • Performers of the Tehuantepec Village
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. II (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:32:57
  • A Hopi family at the Pueblo Indian village of the Grand Canyon concession
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. II (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:32:57
  • The Yellowstone Park concession on the Zone
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:32:57
  • The Panama Canal model on the Zone, with its moving amphitheater
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book: a comprehensive official souvenir view book of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:32:57
  • Old Faithful Inn, the Union Pacific concession on the Zone
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. V (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:32:57
  • Toyland Grown Up, Frederic Thompson's adaptation of Mother Goose and the fairy tales
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:32:57
  • Where bright lights lured: the Zone at night
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. II (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:32:57
  • The Diving Girls, and the crowd at the door
    Title: “The Diving Girls on the Zone, with the crowd at the door”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:34:10
  • Creation, on the Zone, 1915
    Title: “Creation, the Dawn of Life, on the Zone”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:34:26
  • The crowd on the Zone looking west toward Fillmore Street and Festival Hall, the Dayton Flood building on the right
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:34:26
  • Infant Incubators with living infants, Martin Couney's concession, and its staff
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:34:26
  • Stella on the Zone, ten cents to see the painting
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:35:32
  • Stella, by Napoleone Nani
    Title: “Stella label QS:Len,"Stella"”
    Author: Napoleone Nani
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from media.mutualart.com)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:36:51
  • A Samoan house on the Zone, with the villagers who performed there, 1915
    Title: “A grass-thatched Samoan house on the Zone, with the villagers who performed there”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:37:06
  • The crowd at the gate of the '49 Camp on the Zone, 1915
    Title: “The '49 Camp on the Zone, with the crowd at its gate”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:37:06
  • Zuni and Hopi families, brought by the Santa Fe
    Title: “Zuni and Hopi families brought by the Santa Fe to the Grand Canyon concession”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book: a comprehensive official souvenir view book of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:38:19
  • The Zone, 1915
    Title: “Opening day on the Zone”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. II (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:38:35
  • The immigration station on Angel Island, 1915
    Title: “Immigration station, Angel Island, Cal”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from loc.gov)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded
    In the film at 1:38:35
  • The French liner Rochambeau, about 1915
    Title: “ROCHAMBEAU LOC 16175178335”
    Author: The Library of Congress
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:38:35
  • The Grand Canyon of Arizona concession on the Zone
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:39:59
  • A Birth of a Nation lobby card, 1915
    Title: “Poster for The Birth of a Nation (1915) 01”
    Author: Employee(s) of Epoch Producing Corp
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Doctor Macro. " Birth of a Nation ". Retrieved 2026-02-03)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:40:10
  • The Hall of Audience in the Chinese Pavilion, 1915
    Title: “A group in the Hall of Audience, Chinese Pavilion”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:41:30
  • The Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
    Title: “Chineseexclusionact”
    Author: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Federal Government as part of that person’s official duties under th
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from ourdocuments.gov)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:41:30
  • The Formosa Tea House in the Japanese section, 1915
    Author: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, official view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915),
    Source: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, official view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:41:30
  • Captain, the educated horse, at his Zone theater
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:42:14
  • Pacific Street, the Barbary Coast
    Title: “Pacific street clubs”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Jazz on the Barbary Coast .)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:42:25
  • The Jewel City on the shore, lit by hidden light
    Title: “Night on the Marina: the north front of the palaces”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:42:25
  • The Palace of Fine Arts, 1915
    Title: “Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, March 1915”
    Author: Internet Archive Book Images
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:43:20
  • Rodin's The Thinker, in the court of the French Pavilion, 1915
    Title: “Rodin's The Thinker, in the Palace of Fine Arts colonnade”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Ben Macomber, The Jewel City (1915) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:43:20
  • Colin Campbell Cooper, Palace of Fine Arts, about 1915
    Title: “Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco label QS:Len,"Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco"”
    Author: Colin Campbell Cooper
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from In The Loop)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:43:59
  • Boccioni, Development of a Bottle in Space, 1913
    Title: “Development of a Bottle in Space”
    Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: CC0
    In the film at 1:43:59
  • Edvard Munch, Summer Night at Aagaardstrand
    Title: “Trees and Garden Wall in Åsgårdstrand”
    Author: Edvard Munch
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Alexis Kauffmann)
    License: Public domain
    In the film at 1:43:59
  • William Merritt Chase, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1885, shown in 1915
    Title: “James Abbott McNeill Whistler”
    Author: William Merritt Chase
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: CC0
    Modified: enlarged
    In the film at 1:43:59
  • Frank Duveneck, Whistling Boy, 1872, shown in 1915
    Title: “The Whistling Boy label QS:Len,"The Whistling Boy"”
    Author: Frank Duveneck
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from gQGJgu9rrvUWhA at Google Cultural Institute , zoom level maximum)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: enlarged
    In the film at 1:43:59
  • Grafly's Pioneer Mother, from the Blue Book
    Title: “Blue Book Panama-Pacific Expo p.5”
    Author: Charles Grafly (1862–1929), sculptor Robert A. Reid, photographer
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:45:28
  • Grafly's Pioneer Mother
    Title: “Pioneer Mother by Charles Grafly”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Stella G. S. Perry, The Sculpture and Murals of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco: The Wahlgreen Company, 1915).)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:45:28
  • Arthur Putnam's Puma
    Title: “Art in California - a survey of American art with special reference to Californian painting, sculpture and architecture past and present, particularly as those arts were represented at the”
    Author: Porter, Bruce
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Art in California (1916), via Wikimedia Commons / Internet Archive)
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:45:28
  • A. Phimister Proctor's American Bison
    Title: “Art in California - a survey of American art with special reference to Californian painting, sculpture and architecture past and present, particularly as those arts were represented at the”
    Author: Porter, Bruce
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Art in California (1916), via Wikimedia Commons / Internet Archive)
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:45:28
  • Haig Patigian's Apollo Hunting
    Title: “Art in California - a survey of American art with special reference to Californian painting, sculpture and architecture past and present, particularly as those arts were represented at the”
    Author: Porter, Bruce
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Art in California (1916), via Wikimedia Commons / Internet Archive)
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:45:28
  • The San Francisco Day crowd, November 2, 1915
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:46:23
  • The Hall of the Tapestries in the French Pavilion, 1915
    Title: “The Hall of the Tapestries in the French Pavilion”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:47:10
  • Lafayette beneath the dome of the Rotunda, Palace of Fine Arts
    Title: “Beneath the dome of the Rotunda, Palace of Fine Arts”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:47:10
  • Inside the French Pavilion
    Title: “Entrance hall of the French Pavilion”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:47:10
  • Refugees from Belgium in Paris, 1914
    Title: “Refugees from Belgium in Paris, 1914 LCCN2014697632”
    Author: Bain News Service, publisher
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:47:10
  • Closing day, Court of the Universe, December 4
    Title: “Closing day in the Court of the Universe, December 4, 1915”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. V (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:48:54
  • The Oscar II leaving Hoboken, December 4, 1915
    Title: “Oscar II 1915”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from press photos)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:49:45
  • Edison and Ford at the fair, 1915
    Title: “Thomas Edison and Henry Ford at the Panama-Pacific Exposition.”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from NPGallery)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:49:45
  • The final ceremonies, the night of December 4, 1915
    Title: “The final ceremonies, December 4, 1915”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. V (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:50:32
  • Weinman's Descending Night
    Title: “DescendingNightAAW”
    Author: Eugen Neuhaus
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:51:02
  • The last gleam: closing night in the Court of the Universe
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. V (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:51:02
  • The Tower of Jewels illuminated
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:51:36
  • Fraser's End of the Trail by night, Willard Worden, 1915
    Title: “Willard Worden, End of the Trail by James Earle Fraser by night 1915”
    Author: Willard Worden
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from liveauctioneers.com)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:51:36
  • The portal of the Court of Palms at night
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. I (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:51:36
  • Closing night: the last pyrotechnics
    Title: “Pyrotechnics over the Yacht Harbor”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. II (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:52:32
  • Closing night on the Zone
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. V (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:52:32
  • The last pyrotechnics, December 4, 1915
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. V (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:52:32
  • The main group from Russian Hill, 1914
    Title: “View from the Golden Gate on Russian Hill at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco LCCN96508499”
    Author: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:53:47
  • The Tower of Jewels, 1915
    Title: “Pictures taken on trip to Canada and west 1915”
    Author: Mississippi Department of Archives and History
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from flickr.com)
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:54:22
  • The Nations of the East, before the wreckers
    Title: “Calder Arch Rising Sun Story of Expo vol.2 p.139”
    Author: Alexander Stirling Calder (1870-1945), sculptor Cardinell Vincent Company, photographer
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition, Volume 2 (New York: G. W. Putnam's Sons, 1921), p. 139. [1])
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:54:47
  • The Arch of the Setting Sun
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Ben Macomber, The Jewel City (1915) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:54:47
  • The North Dakota Building
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:56:11
  • Ohio's building, which floated away
    Title: “The Ohio Building”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:56:24
  • Borglum's Pioneer at the fair, 1915
    Title: “The Pioneer”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:57:22
  • The Palace of Fine Arts, 1915
    Title: “The Palace of Fine Arts”
    Author: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, official view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915),
    Source: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, official view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 1:58:30
  • Influenza ward in the Oakland Municipal Auditorium, 1918
    Title: “1918 flu in Oakland”
    Author: Edward A. "Doc" Rogers, 1873-1960
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded
    In the film at 1:58:51
  • Women in flu masks, the Examiner, October 1918
    Title: “Society Women wearing Flu Masks SF Examiner 24 Oct 1918”
    Author: International Film Services
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from San Francisco Examiner, 24 October 1918 Via copy online at [www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10163738563305501])
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 1:58:51
  • The Palace of Fine Arts across the lagoon, today
    Title: “Lagoon - Palace of Fine Arts - San Francisco, CA - DSC02422”
    Author: Daderot
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: CC0
    Modified: cropped
    In the film at 2:01:41
  • Crissy Field from the air, 1920s
    Title: “Prsf crissy arial 1921”
    Author: US-Army,
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from NPS http://www.nps.gov/prsf/history/crissy/cfaerial.htm)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 2:02:21
  • Marina Green, the fair's North Gardens, today
    Title: “Marina Green”
    Author: Simon Cobb
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: CC0
    Modified: graded
    In the film at 2:03:27
  • The Marina after the fire, October 1989
    Title: “Loma prieta earthquake fema1”
    Author: FEMA News Photo
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from FEMA)
    License: Public domain
    In the film at 2:03:27
  • Marine One over the city after leaving Crissy Field, 2023
    Title: “Joe Biden boards Marine One at Crissy Field in San Francisco”
    Author: Adam Schultz, The White House
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from P20230620AS-0845)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    In the film at 2:05:39
  • Chestnut Street, Divisadero to Fillmore, today
    Title: “2228 Chestnut Street - San Francisco, CA - DSC02384”
    Author: Daderot
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: CC0
    Modified: cropped
    In the film at 2:06:48
  • Chestnut Street, today
    Title: “2266 Chestnut Street - San Francisco, CA - DSC02388”
    Author: Daderot
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: CC0
    Modified: cropped
    In the film at 2:06:48
  • The Palace of Machinery, from the official view book
    Title: “The Palace of Machinery”
    Author: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, official view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915),
    Source: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, official view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 2:07:57
  • The tablet to the flying men on the Column of Progress
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. V (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 2:10:30
  • MacNeil's Adventurous Bowman, from the top of the Column of Progress
    Title: “The Column of Progress and its figures”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 2:10:54
  • The Fountain of Ceres, Court of the Four Seasons
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 2:10:54
  • The Court of the Universe, which filled the blocks between
    Title: “The Court of the Universe from the Tower of Jewels”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 2:10:54
  • The Palace of Fine Arts by night, 1915
    Title: “The Rotunda of the Palace of Fine Arts at night”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 2:12:06
  • The rotunda and colonnade across the lagoon, 2012
    Title: “Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, California, a monumental structure originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition LCCN2013630009”
    Author: Carol M. Highsmith
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped
    In the film at 2:12:16
  • The yacht harbor on Columbus Day, 1915
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 2:12:16
  • The Court of the Universe from the Palace of Horticulture
    Title: “The South Gardens and the Fountain of Energy from the Palace of Horticulture”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 2:12:16
  • The pool with jets in the Forecourt of Stars, Court of the Universe
    Title: “The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the”
    Author: Internet Archive Book Images
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition (1921), via Wikimedia Commons / Internet Archive)
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 2:12:16
  • The Arch of the Rising Sun, 1915
    Title: “Visitors by a fountain in the Court of the Universe, the Arch of the Rising Sun behind”
    Author: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, official view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915),
    Source: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, official view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 2:12:16
  • The Tower of Jewels at night
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Ben Macomber, The Jewel City (1915) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, enlarged
    In the film at 2:12:16
  • The Fountain of Energy, 1915
    Title: “The Fountain of Energy”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Blue Book, official souvenir view book (Robert A. Reid, 1915) (from Internet Archive / San Francisco Public Library)
    License: Public domain (published 1915, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 2:12:16
  • The Marina from the air, today
    Title: “SanFran from above”
    Author: Sasha Zvereva
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from unsplash.com)
    License: CC0
    Modified: cropped
    In the film at 2:12:16
  • The Palace of Fine Arts, 1915
    Title: “Street Scenes- Fine Arts Bldg. – Lagoon Facade – San Francisco Expo 1915”
    Author: OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from flickr.com)
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    In the film at 2:13:57
  • Ansel Adams in 1941. He turned thirteen on opening day
    Title: “Ansel Adams - Personnel File Photograph - NARA”
    Author: U.S. Civil Service Commission
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    In the film at 2:13:57

Pictures behind quotations, titles and figures (20)

Shown darkened behind the text of a card.

  • “Panama-Pacific International Exposition – Opening day”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from AIN.A15.104.p0046)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    Shown behind a quotation card
    In the film at 1:07
  • San Francisco Bay from the Space Station
    Title: “San Francisco Bay (2474)”
    Author: NASA
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, enlarged
    Shown behind a title or figures card
    In the film at 4:53, 4:58
  • “Portrait of Jules Guérin”
    Author: not stated
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from The Lamp: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000020210502;view=1up;seq=216;size=200)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    Shown behind a quotation card
    In the film at 10:02
  • Autochrome of the Court of the Universe, 1915
    Title: “The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the”
    Author: Internet Archive Book Images
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: No restrictions
    Modified: graded
    Shown behind a quotation card
    In the film at 10:28
  • “Title page of The City of Domes: A Walk with an Architect about the Courts and Palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition”
    Author: John D. Barry
    Source: Internet Archive
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded
    Shown behind a quotation card
    In the film at 12:45, 40:17, 1:31:59
  • “Reuben Brooks Hale”
    Author: Harris & Ewing
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Sunset 1915-03: Vol 34 Iss 3)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    Shown behind a quotation card
    In the film at 14:30
  • “Ruins of earthquake and fire, San Francisco, Calif. 1906 LCCN2003671866”
    Author: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded
    Shown behind a title or figures card
    In the film at 17:30
  • “William Howard Taft, Bain bw photo portrait, 1908”
    Author: George Grantham Bain; copyright: Moffett Studio
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from modified from http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.00909)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded
    Shown behind a quotation card
    In the film at 21:52, 1:26:11
  • “Grading for the Palace of Machinery, December 1912”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. I (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    Shown behind a title or figures card
    In the film at 32:04
  • “Exposition grounds, three months before opening day”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
    License: No known restrictions on publication
    Modified: cropped, graded
    Shown behind a title or figures card
    In the film at 32:10
  • “Title page of The Art of the Exposition”
    Author: Eugen Neuhaus
    Source: Internet Archive
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded
    Shown behind a quotation card
    In the film at 36:14
  • “Palace of Horticulture Postcard from the Panama-Pacific Exposition”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from siarchives.si.edu)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    Shown behind a title or figures card
    In the film at 37:34
  • “Walter D'Arcy Ryan (1917)”
    Author: Bain
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from This image has been extracted from another file)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    Shown behind a quotation card
    In the film at 42:44
  • “Palace of Horticulture Postcard from the Panama-Pacific Exposition 2”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from siarchives.si.edu)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped, graded, enlarged
    Shown behind a quotation card
    In the film at 44:29
  • “EdwinMarkham”
    Author: Horner, John B. (for book in which the image is contained);
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Oregon: Her History, Her Great Men, Her Literature . Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Aboutmovies using CommonsHelper .)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    Shown behind a quotation card
    In the film at 49:19
  • “Chester H. Rowell 1915”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from archive.org)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    Shown behind a quotation card
    In the film at 53:15
  • “The U.S.S. Ohio passing through the Gatun Locks, July 15, 1915, on her way to the Exposition”
    Author: not recorded
    Source: The Story of the Exposition, vol. III (Frank Morton Todd, 1921) (from Internet Archive)
    License: Public domain (published 1921, United States)
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    Shown behind a title or figures card
    In the film at 54:32
  • “Sara Bard Field, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left LCCN98518788”
    Author: George Grantham Bain Collection
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded
    Shown behind a quotation card
    In the film at 1:22:40
  • “Title page of Problems Women Solved: Being the Story of the Woman's Board of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition”
    Author: Anna Pratt Simpson
    Source: Internet Archive
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded
    Shown behind a quotation card
    In the film at 1:23:39, 1:25:30
  • “Charles Cadwell Moore Sr. (1868–1932)”
    Author: Unknown author
    Source: Wikimedia Commons (from Who's Who in California: A Biographical Directory, 1928–29, published 1929, page 351)
    License: Public domain
    Modified: graded, enlarged
    Shown behind a quotation card
    In the film at 1:50:43

Maps (2)

The 1915 footprints are traced from the U.S. Geological Survey map of the site, the Official Guide (1915) and Todd's The Story of the Exposition (1921), and drawn over these.

  • The 1915 fairground over today's Marina
    Title: “Aerial imagery of the Marina and the Presidio”
    Author: USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP)
    Source: USGS National Map
    License: Public domain
    Modified: cropped
    The 1915 fairground is drawn over it for this film.
    In the film at 2:06:11
  • The 1915 fairground over today's Marina
    Title: “Street map of the Marina”
    Author: OpenStreetMap contributors
    Source: OpenStreetMap
    License: ODbL 1.0
    The 1915 fairground is drawn over it for this film.
    In the film at 2:06:11

Period recordings (21)

Public domain in the United States, via Wikimedia Commons.

  • “Iola”
    Performer: Edison Military Band
    Recorded: c. 1906
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
  • “Varsity March”
    Performer: Victor Military Band
    Recorded: 1914
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
  • “You're a Grand Old Flag”
    Performer: Billy Murray
    Recorded: 1906
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
  • “El Capitan”
    Performer: Sousa's Band
    Recorded: c. 1897 to 1900
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
  • “Mr. Rooster (March and Two-Step)”
    Performer: Arthur Pryor's Band
    Recorded: 1910
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
  • “Semper Fidelis”
    Performer: U.S. Marine Band
    Recorded: 1909
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
  • “Happy Heinie”
    Performer: Arthur Pryor's Band
    Recorded: 1906
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
  • “The Tale of the Sea Shell”
    Performer: Walter B. Rogers with Sousa's Band
    Recorded: 1903
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
  • “African Dreamland”
    Performer: Sousa's Band
    Recorded: 1904
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
  • “Miserere (from Il Trovatore)”
    Performer: Henry Higgins (cornet) and Arthur Pryor (trombone)
    Recorded: 1897
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
  • “Rule, Britannia”
    Performer: Albert Farrington
    Recorded: 1914
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
  • “A Japanese Two-Step”
    Performer: performers unknown
    Recorded: c. 1906
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
  • “Pu Tian Yue (Chinese anthem)”
    Performer: Victor Military Band
    Recorded: 1914
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
  • “The Stars and Stripes Forever”
    Performer: Sousa's Band
    Recorded: 1909
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
  • “That Flying Rag”
    Performer: Arthur Pryor's Band
    Recorded: 1911
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
  • “Fall In Line (Suffrage March)”
    Performer: Victor Military Band
    Recorded: 1914
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
  • “Hesitation Blues”
    Performer: Victor Military Band
    Recorded: 1916
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
  • “The Lost Chord”
    Performer: Reed Miller
    Recorded: 1913
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
  • “The Stars and Stripes Forever (1902 recording)”
    Performer: Ruby Brooks (banjo)
    Recorded: 1902
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
  • “Favorite Airs from The Mikado”
    Performer: Edison Light Opera Company
    Recorded: 1914
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain
  • “Funeral March of a Marionette”
    Performer: Sousa's Band
    Recorded: 1903
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain

Later recordings (1)

Not every recording under the film is from its period: these are later recordings, or came to Commons with no performer or recording date on record.

  • “La Reine de la Mer (waltzes)”
    Performer: U.S. Marine Band
    Recorded: 1989
    Source: Wikimedia Commons
    License: Public domain

Musical cues (29)

All written and produced for this film by Keith Adler, 2026. © Keith Adler.

  • The Exposition Two-Step
  • 288 Days (Main Title)
  • The Jewel City
  • The City That Burned
  • They Went to Washington
  • Pumping the Cove
  • Novagems
  • Forty-Eight Beams
  • It Will Not Be Postponed
  • Five Thousand Six Hundred and Nine
  • The Master Birdman
  • They Walked to It
  • The Ordinary Days
  • Somebody's Day
  • The Bell Came West
  • One After Another
  • Somebody's Afternoon
  • Labor Day at the St. Francis
  • The Joy Zone
  • Fifty Cents More
  • Down the Zone
  • A Quarter to Look
  • Last Years of the Barbary Coast
  • Built to Be Torn Down
  • Taken Apart
  • A Boy of Thirteen
  • The Ground Underneath
  • Nine Blocks North
  • Ansel

Voices and sound effects (28)

The narration and every quoted voice in this film were synthesized with ElevenLabs. The narrator's voice is a model of Keith Adler's own. The quoted voices are voices from the ElevenLabs library, each cast to read one person's words. The words quoted are their own, from the record. The sound effects were generated for this film with ElevenLabs:

  • A city street outside the gate
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-14
    entering at the foot of Scott Street, 5:39
  • A distant fire burning through a city
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-14
    the earthquake and the fires that followed, April 1906, 13:00
  • A steam train leaving a station
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-14
    the Logical Point Special carrying New Orleans boosters to Washington, 16:39
  • A steam suction dredge working
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-14
    the dredge John McMullin filling the cove, 1912
  • Building the fair
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-14
    the palaces going up on the fill, 1913 to 1914
  • Mortars and aerial shells over water
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-14
    closing night, six hundred mortars along the Marina; and the Scintillator
  • A fairground crowd, at a distance
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-14
    opening day, the parade and the Court of the Universe
  • An early aeroplane passing overhead
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-14
    Beachey over the fair, March 1915
  • Steady rain on a wet spring
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-14
    the spring Todd called late, cold and disagreeable: twenty-seven days of rain, 47:00
  • A motor-car assembly line indoors
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-14
    Ford's line running in the Palace of Transportation, 52:54 and 1:09:22
  • The mammoth Underwood
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-14
    the fourteen-ton working typewriter, 54:41
  • A long-distance line opening
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-14
    Bell opens the transcontinental line, 53:27
  • A great pipe organ in a large hall
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-14
    Festival Hall, one of the largest organs in the world, 368 recitals at ten cents
  • The Zone at night
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-14
    the amusement street, part ten
  • The wreckers
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-14
    the buildings sold one at a time and the rest wrecked, 1:26:20
  • The ground going
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-14
    Loma Prieta, 17 October 1989, the fill liquefying under the Marina
  • The Marina, today
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-14
    the present-day walk: Marina Green, the Yacht Harbor, Chestnut Street
  • The city waking to whistles and bells
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-23
    opening morning, every fire bell and factory whistle in the city at six, cold open
  • A city walking in procession
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-23
    the people of San Francisco walking to the fair, cold open; watching the parade, part nine
  • Cut glass trembling in the wind
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-23
    the novagems on the Tower of Jewels, cold open and part five
  • The Golden Gate in fog
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-23
    the Golden Gate before the bridge, crossed by ferry, part one
  • Teams hauling lumber on the fill
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-23
    Todd's site that looked like ruin: horses dragging planks, locomotives in blind alleys, 1913
  • A locomotive run on blocks for steam
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-23
    the Southern Pacific engine on the fireworks pier making Ryan's clouds, part five
  • A steamer in the Gatun locks
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-23
    the Ancon opens the Panama Canal, August 15, 1914, part six
  • Art Smith looping at night
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-23
    Art Smith writing on the night sky with flares, part eight
  • The Liberty Bell train at a station
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-23
    the Liberty Bell crossing the country, crowds waiting at every station, July 1915
  • A colonnade pulled down
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-23
    colonnades pulled over with a donkey engine and a cable, arches brought down with dynamite, 1916
  • Chestnut Street, today
    Generated for this film with ElevenLabs sound generation, 2026-09-23
    walking the south edge of the fair along Chestnut Street today, part seventeen

Films (26)

Period reels, grouped by the archive that holds them. All films are in the public domain.