#golden gate exposition

[nemfrog]

Bay Bridge. A cartograph of Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay : Golden Gate International Exposition. 1939. Pictorial map detail.

David Rumsey

[thepopculturearchivist]

THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, February 18, 1939

[danismm]

Golden Gate International Exposition 1939

[jll3943-blog]

Federal Building, Treasure Island Exposition, 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition

[ggie1939]

A tribute to Sally Rand, born  April 3, 1904. Here she is on her ‘Dude Ranch’ at the GGIE. This clip of film fell on the cutting room floor, perhaps one of the only surviving film clips from this famous exhibit? Well, at least half a second’s worth of motion picture film. This was from James A. Fitzpatrick’s Traveltalk series of short films. He did a number of Golden Gate International Exposition films, including “A Day on Treasure Island”, “Night Descends on Treasure Island”, and the “Cavalcade of San Francisco”. He also shot scenes from the 1939 short “Mendolsohn’s Wedding March" on the man-made Island.

[furryalligator]

(via Model City - 99% Invisible)

Explore the model online thanks to the the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection (photos c/o the San Francisco Public Library). More detailed and recent color images of the model can be seen here.

[metapatjohnson]

Covers -- USA -- First Day Issue -- 1939  

[20th-century-man]

A TOAST TO THE GOLDEN GATE. Miss Afton Bernard, theme girl of the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco drinks an early morning glass of milk to officially start National Milk Week, November 14 to 20.