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Ticket for the Yellowstone National Park Exhibit at PPIE

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Ticket for the Yellowstone National Park Exhibit at PPIE
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Rare! Special Admit One ticket for Yellowstone National Park Exhibit by the Union Pacific System, "Reproducing Educational and Natural Features." Signed by General Manager J.R. Kathrens. Reverse has an illustration of the exhibit, which looks pretty amazing! Folds and creases. 2.5 x 4" From the Desert Evening News: "At the Panama-Pacific international exhibition at San Francisco, undoubtedly the most elaborate concession is the great Yellowstone park exhibit of the Union Pacific system, involving a reproduction of Old Faithful Inn, a birdseye profile miniature of Yellowstone park, Old Faithful geyser in action, vista of various Yellowstone park scenes reproduced in all their beauty of coloring, exactly as they meet the eye in the park. Some idea may be obtained of the scope of this wonderful spectacle when it is known that the sum of $400,000 has been spent in reproducing upon an elaborate scale the glories of the great national playground. Neither money nor effect was spared to make the reproduction worthy of the original down to the most minute detail. With this spirit dominating the work it was decided that the great scenic effects of rocky crags and cliffs should not be mere haphazard combinations of wood framework and plaster and paint. Instead, forms were made over real rocks, which were first dipped in plaster of paris and spread over the rocks, being fitted to every crack and crevice. This was allowed to dry and at the proper time an extra half-inch of plaster was applied to the surface..." (Potter Collection) HWAC# 60402 Date: 1915 Location: San Francisco, California