The M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California
Author: M.H. De Young Memorial Museum
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 206
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Author: M.H. De Young Memorial Museum
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 206
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Published: 1921
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California Mr. de Young was appointed National Commissioner at large to the Chicago Columbian Exposition in 1893, the appointment coming from President Harrison. Shortly afterward he was elected vice-president of the National Commission. Fulfilling his duties in this position, Mr. de Young was brought into close touch with many foreign exhibitors and he found them most favorably disposed toward his plan for a California exposition, to which they might send their collections. With this encouragement, he called a meeting of Californians then in Chicago and at the same time began a campaign in San Francisco to arouse enthusiasm for the plan. Expressions of interest and willingness to aid came from the Governor of California, the Mayor of San Francisco and from the general public, stimulated by the support given by the press. But the year of 1893 was a period of financial depression and many San Francisco business men feared to embark on an enterprise that promised to be such an expensive one. Notified of this attitude, Mr. de Young immediately telegraphed his personal subscription of $5000 and new life was given the campaign in San Francisco. Meantime, on June 11, 1893, the Californians in Chicago held their meeting at the call of Mr. de Young. Foreign exhibitors pledged their support in sending exhibits to San Francisco. Subscription lists were circulated and a total of $41,500 was pledged. Although the San Francisco public was by this time heartily in favor of the plan, there was still considerable doubt in the minds of the cautious business men who made up the Western committee. Unwilling to proceed without convincing proof that they were taking no serious risk, they appointed a special investigating committee of fifty members. The committee considered the de Young plan from all angles, went over in detail the estimates and suggestions submitted by Mr, de Young, and finally recommended to the general committee a plan for permanent organization, the principal feature of which was a proposition to erect on land in Golden Gate Park, four buildings, the aggregate cost not to exceed $500,000. This was the material with which Mr. de Young had to work when, in the summer of 1893, he returned from Chicago and was immediately named president and director-general of the proposed exposition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher: Scala Books
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe two museums that in 1970 became the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco were at one time rival institutions. The de Young museum grew out of the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894. The Legion of Honor had its genesis in the Panama-
Author: M.C. Driscoll
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Published: 1921
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Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1558685456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis gorgeous book captures the wonders of this park by the bay. Filled with color photos and historical documents documenting the park's illustrious and colorful past.
Author: Timothy Anglin Burgard
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 573
ISBN-13: 9780884011170
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Published on the occasion of the reopening of the de Young in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, October 2005"--T.p. verso.
Author: M.H. de Young Memorial Museum
Publisher: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780884011354
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