. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal. the finished stationery. There was a cutting press for cuttingenvelopes and paper, by means of heavy steel cutting-dies. The blankenvelopes were laid out on a flat board and gummed by hand, and then theboard with the wet gummed blanks on it was slipped under the dischargepipe of a fan blower that took heated air from an electric heater. Once dry,the envelopes went through a folding ma
. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal. the finished stationery. There was a cutting press for cuttingenvelopes and paper, by means of heavy steel cutting-dies. The blankenvelopes were laid out on a flat board and gummed by hand, and then theboard with the wet gummed blanks on it was slipped under the dischargepipe of a fan blower that took heated air from an electric heater. Once dry,the envelopes went through a folding machine that was no less than anobject of fascination, so regularly, perfectly, and industriously did it doits work. Everybody likes tio see work being done in large volume by some-body else, and so the crowds hung spellbound about this monotonous opera-tion. There was an imprinting machine, and an outfit for gold initialembossing, and there was a table for packing the boxed paper. Some 600boxes of Highland linen a day were turned out, merely as a small-scaledemonstration. Jewelry, silverware, and allied products were well represented in thisPalace. The Baldwin Jewelry Company, of San Francisco, hveryad two. TAPESTRIES AND FURNITURE
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