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“Flying on Display: Aviation at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition” celebrates the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) held along San Francisco’s northern shore in the Presidio, Fort Mason, and Harbor View, a wetland area now known as the Marina District. Technology was a centerpiece of PPIE, and from February through December, close to nineteen million visitors delighted at displays of daily flying demonstrations. On view in this exhibition are images that capture early aviation at the fair, reproduced from prints of the original glass slides made in 1915 by the Cardinell-Vincent Company, official photographer of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See “Flying on Display: Aviation at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition,” located post-security in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://bit.ly/3zQVC0M 📸: Arthur “Art” Smith performing a dive in his Smith-Curtiss Pusher at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco 1915 Cardinell-Vincent Company archival inkjet print Collection of SFO Museum Gift of Edwin I. Power, Jr., and Linda L. Liscom 2015.040.021a R2024.1001.007 This image was posted on August 30, 2024.