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Title: California and the expositions, Yellowstone National Park : how to go and what to see en route Union Pacific System
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.) Panama-California Exposition (1915 : San Diego, Calif.)
Publisher: Chicago : Rand McNally
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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© Panama-Pacific Int. Exposition From an architectural viewpoint the dominating feature of the Panama-Pacific Exposition is the great Tower of Jewels rising at the southern entrance of the Court of the Sun and Stars. This tower is 423 feet in height. attractions in The Zone are a matter of contract with themanagement, and therefore reasonable, ranging from 10 to 50 cents. Yellowstone National Park Exhibit of Union Pacific System at Panama-Pacific Inter-national Exposition The Union Pacific System has added popularity to YellowstoneNational Park by means of its western entrance at Yellowstone,Montana. It offers the direct, inviting and most advantageousapproach to this galaxy of astounding marvels. Governmentfigures! show that the largest number of visitors entering the Parkduring seasons 1913 and 1914 made the trip by way of this portal. What more appropriate than for the pioneer trans-continental
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Vista through rich verdure at corner of Varied Industries Palace, showing Machinery Palace across the Avenue of Progress.Twelve —-y£~ railroad to reproduce this assembling of Natures grandest awe-inspiring attractions at the Panama-Pacific International Exposi-tion at San Francisco! The Panama Canal incites and invitessuperlatives. In like fashion, just as the Exposition which com-memorates it excels all which have gone before, so this Yellow-stone reproduction is the largest exhibit ever erected at any WorldFair, involving the use of two million feet of lumber and the expen-diture of half a million dollars. The salient features of this titanic wonderland are imaged trueto life so faithfully as to impress on the mind the mountains, canyons,geysers and valleys as Dame Nature fashioned them in the Wyomingfastness. Old Faithful Inn is conspicuous, well meriting its name.It is not in miniature in any particular, for there is no curtailment inproportions. Entering the Exposition Grounds

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