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.
Possibly related to the article “Many Prominent Exposition Visitors From All Parts of Nation at Coronado: San Diego Fair's President Gives Dinner for Noted Folk.” Los Angeles Times, 19 Sept. 1935.
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].
View of a man on tractor, 3 men with shovels and one man watching in front of the pueblo-style Palisades Building (formerly Hollywood Hall of Fame building) during construction at California Pacific International Exposition
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.
The orphans' flinging the switch to light the exposition in the evening, is reported in "Fair's Start Awaited by Thousands: Throngs Gather in San Diego: City Flag-Bedecked, With Expositions Opening Set for 11 a/m/ Tomorrow," Los Angeles Times, 28 May 1935: 1.