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Identifier: alaskayukonpacif00reid (find matches)
Title: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, and Seattle the beautiful exposition city
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Reid, Robert A., Seattle, pub. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle, Wash.)
Publisher: Seattle, R. A. Reis
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Oriental Palaces are of French renaissance design, Ionic columns being used to harmonize with the adjoining buildings.They are constructed much alike, and face each other upon the Court of Honor. In the Foreign Building are assembled exhibits from England, France,Germany, Spain, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Russia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, San Marino and Belgium. The displays include exhibitsof marble statuary, furniture, terra cotta, earthware, corals, shells, jewelry, laces and embroidery, Italian fine arts, fancy goods of all kinds, porce-lains, ceramic ware, bronzes, tiles, brasswork, cocoa, chocolate, teas, pottery and almost every article manufactured in European countries. TheOriental Building houses comprehensive displays from Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Persia, British and Native India, China, Korea and New Zealand.It contains a fine display of portraits, leather goods, smoking and writing articles, Bohemian rock crystal, jewelry, fancy goods, art metal and glass.
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GROUP OF GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS AND EXPOSITION MONUMENT The five large government exhibit palaces at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition cover a total area of 137,390 square feet and cost $250,000.The exhibits show the principal administrative functions of the government. The Treasury Department has a complete mint and assay office inoperation. The Revenue Cutter Service and Marine Hospital Service and other branches of the great Pay Department have interesting exhibits.The Postofhce Department has transferred its entire museum to the Exposition, and established in connection therewith the Model Postoffice. TheFisheries Building is in the rear of the Main Building, connected by a pavilion. The exhibits show many kinds of fishes swimming in glass tanks.Models of all battleships and cruisers, of dry docks, guns and ordnance equipment together with historic relics are exhibited in the Navy Department,and models showing all branches of service are shown in the Army section. The Exposition M

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