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Title: The San Diego garden fair; personal impressions of the architecture, sculpture, horticulture, color scheme & other aesthetic aspects of the Panama California International Exposition
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Neuhaus, Karl Eugen, 1879-
Subjects: Panama-California International Exposition (1916 : San Diego, Calif.)
Publisher: San Francisco, P. Elder and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ion, the Carmelite and historian whoaccompanied Vizcaino, and Padre Luis Jayme,the Franciscan and follower of Serra, the martyrof the mission, who suffered death at the handsof the Indians at the destruction of the SanDiego Mission. All of these figures are mod-elled with fine regard for their relation to thesurrounding ornament, and their flowing capesand draperies echo the animated character ofthe ornament. The fine oaken door opening into the churchhas all the character of the richly ornate frontis-piece. Over the doorway are the arms of theState of California and elsewhere are those ofSpain, Mexico and the United States. How-ever, a group of candelabra directly in front, atthe head of the steps, has all the distressingawkwardness of most examples of the firstevidence of municipal art in small countrycommunities, the Main-street electrolier. Ihope that they are not permanent, and easilyremoved. They are superfluous in the other-wise well-lighted quadrangle, and entirely out of (32)
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GLIMPSE OF THE MONTEZUMA GARDEN — THE TOWER OF THE INDIANARTS BUILDING IN THE DISTANCE THE BUILDINGS keeping with either simple Mission or Spanish-Mexican style. They are modern American,and that is all one can say about them. There is much charm in the great expanse ofthe huge octagonal dome and its pyramidallantern, as well as in three minor domes at theother corners of the building. The gracefullantern is worthy to be the work of ManuelTolsa, who designed and executed many a beau-tiful piece of art work in Mexico. The glazedcolored tiles of the dome sparkle in the sunlightand give a note of the joyousness of southernclimes to the otherwise austere building. Theycover the outer surface of the dome solidly,forming the simple geometric patterns one findsin many similar domes throughout Mexico.Speaking of the patterns, the Great Star in thecenter on all eight sides seems a little violent. Around the drum of the dome we have ahighly appropriate Latin inscription. Trans-lated, it runs

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