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Identifier: pacificgaselectr61915paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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these forty-two nations may be added Great Britainand Germany, through their industrialexhibits, and the Ibero-American Leaguewhich is erecting a pavilion to representSpanish speaking countries. There are forty-three states and terri-tories counted as participants, and these are: Alabama, .Arizona, .\rkansas, Cali-fornia, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Geor-gia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis-souri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska,Nevada, New Jersey, New York, NorthCarolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma,Oregon, Pennsylvania, Philippines, RhodeIsland, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wis-consin, Wyoming. Of the foreign nations more have pa-vilions at the 1915 Exposition than wereerected at any other exposition. Thereare twenty-two of these pavilions. Ofthe participating states and territoriestwenty-nine have buildings. The highestappropriation of the participating nations
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Pacific Service Mag.\zine 293 is that of Argentine Republic, which is81,300,000. California leads the stateswith an outlay of §2,000,000 on the Cali-fornia building. Both Argentine and Cali-fornia set records for nations and statesin the amount of money expended inparticipation at a world exposition. Thesestructures built by the states and nationsare rich in interest. Some are merelyattractive structures built to be the centerof the state or nations activities and thehome of the many social activ-ities. Others are reproductionsof famous places and combineeducation with entertainmentand service. As examples maybe considered: The pavilion erected by Den-mark, which is a reproduction ofHamlets castle, the famousKronberg castle at Elsinore.Across the street from this build-ing is the reproduction of thePalais de Legion dHonneurwhich is being erected byTrance. Not far away is the lit-tle Chinese community with itsrepresentation of one of the tem-ples of the Forbidden City.Japan, like Chin

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