cabrillo

Updated: June 26, 2025

Portals ajar, but Egyptian guardians bar the way. Dramatic subject, vigorous handling. View of San Francisco hills between the columns, one of the most beautiful views on the grounds. Inscriptions on north of tower, by Garnett, discovery of California and union with United States. From left to right: "1542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California and lands on its shores."

John D. (John Daniel) Barry - The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth