On Thursday, November 19, the Bancroft Library will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1915 San Francisco Panama-Pacific International exhibition by inviting students and members of the public into the archives. Using the Historypin platform, students will attach rarely seen photographs of the world’s fair to a historic map of the PPIE fairgrounds.
Spanning the modern day Marina district, the PPIE featured massive exhibit halls, filled with cutting edge technologies of the day and pavilions from various states and countries. Participants will use archival maps, and guides to “pin” photographs and reconstruct the fairgrounds.
The event will kick off with a gallery tour by Curator Theresa Salazar of the Bancroft Library's PPIE exhibit: The Grandeur of a Great Labor: The Building of the Panama Canal and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, followed by a reception and brief talk in the beautiful Morrison Library.
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Event Details
Thursday, November 19, 2015 from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM (PST)
Bancroft Library and Morrison Library - See Agenda for location details. Doe Library building. Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Agenda:
4:00-4:30 pm – Location: Bancroft Library Gallery
- Bancroft Library Gallery Tour with Curator Theresa Salazar - meet in the Bancroft Library lobby (following the gallery tour, participants will be escorted to the Morrison Library for the remainder of the event)
4:30-7:00 pm – Location: Morrison Library
- Welcome Reception and Talk by Laura Ackley, author of San Francisco's Jewel City: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915.
- Demonstration and Pinathon!
- After a quick tour of the virtual fairgrounds, you’ll have a chance to get hands-on working in groups to help us pin historic images from Bancroft's collections onto the 1915 fairground map, using clues, fair guides, maps, and more.
- Live sharing on Historypin PPIE Site
- We will have groups share some of the just-pinned materials Live on the Historypin PPIE site—Tell us what you discovered in your time travels!