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View North from Top of Strawberry Hill Prayerbook Cross Dedicated January 1, 1894 Gift of George W. Childs of Philadelphia to Quarry below Prayerbook Cross was considered too unsightly, so piping and colored lights were installed to create a

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View North from Top of Strawberry Hill

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Prayerbook Cross

Dedicated January 1, 1894

Gift of George W. Childs

f Philadelphia

to

Quarry below Prayerbook Cross was considered too unsightly, so piping and colored lights were installed to create a waterfall in 1929, called Rainbow Falls.

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World’s Columbia Exposition Chicago May 1, 1893 - October 30, 1893

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Skilled labor: $3-3.50/day, Team, Wagon or Scraper: $4/day, Unskilled Labor: $1/day

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Electric Tower designed by Leopold Bonet. The 266-foot tall iron and steel structure echoed the Eiffel Tower. It was topped by an electric spotlight weighing 6,000 pounds producing a beam of 375 million candlepower.

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Bonet Light Focused on Sweeney Observatory

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Fine Arts Bldg. Japan Garden Firth Wheel Heidelberg Castle Esquimaux Village Bonet Electric Tower 49er Mining Camp

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Entrance Gate

Thompson’s Scenic RR.

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Administration Building South End (site of Music Shell today)

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Fine Arts Building

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Dignitaries: Former President

Benj. Harrison

visiting Canadian Club House

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Emergency Room Exhibit

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The Equilbrist

Flirt, charm, persuade…. but sell them some gum. That is your role as a Gum Girl!!

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Haunted Swing Firth Wheel & Dante’s Inferno

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Japanese Village

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Cultural Issues: Rickshaw Makoto Hagiwara

1854 - 1925

vs.

Geo. Turner Marsh

1857 - 1932

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Forty-Niner Mining Camp

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Fateful End to the Bonet’s Electric Tower

When the Fair closed on July 4th, most of the buildings were promptly demolished, and the building materials sold and removed. But not the Electric Tower. It stood for months, which greatly irritated John McLaren. One morning, dynamite sticks were placed on two

f the tower legs, and the tower collapsed. The saboteurs were never identified. The steel

was sold for scrap, and the Park staff could finish clearing the site.

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San Francisco Chronicle, January 13, 1896

“At 10 O’Clock yesterday morning, ....the high steel frame, was thrown from its base by the explosion of a charge of dynamite placed under one of its supports, and a moment later the structure lay on the ground a tortured, mangled mass of wood and steel.”

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Pedestrian Tunnels 1896

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