View of women in push carts, each guided by a young man in a cap, on a road at the California Pacific International Exposition in Balboa Park on the opening day
View of a crowd in front of the California State Building on the opening day of the California Pacific International Exposition. Governor Merriam, who gave the dedication, is in the background standing behind a policeman on the right.
Names of the building: Varied Industries & Food Products Building (1915), Foreign & Domestic Building (1916), Palace of Food & Beverages (1935), 1971 reconstruction names Casa del Prado.
View of the California State Building at the Panama-California International Exhibition, seen across tree tops from a 2nd floor arcaded walkway, with a bench in beneath the arch.
Photograph of the Shell Oil Company Building, cast in concrete in the shape of a seashell, at the California Pacific International Exposition during the end stages of construction. A ladder is suspended from the top of the shell and a man is suspended on a scaffold near the top on the right. Scaffolding is on the ground in front of the building. Technical writing appears on each shell spandrel about midway up the façade (where there appears to be a join between 2 large cast shell sections), at the bases of the shell spandrels, and around the doorway. A flatbed truck and 2 cars are parked in front and 2 boys are passing on a bicycle.
Sailor from the USS Saratoga (CV-3) purchasing flowers from 4 women in Spanish dress at the California Pacific International Exposition ad another sailor approaches.
Charles Hamilton Owens (1881-1958) was an illustrator and landscape painter, and Los Angeles Times staff artist [identified as the photographer in image ark no. 21198/zz002d9x88].