Arch of the Rising Sun

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Stock #:244779
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: San Francisco
State: California (CA)
County: San Francisco
Publisher: Pacific Novelty Co.
Postmark: 1915 Aug-19
Postmark City: San Francisco
Postmark State: CA
Stamp: 1c
Philatelic Notes: Exposition Cancel
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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February 20 to December 4, 1915. Entering the Court of Universe under the arch of the main tower the visitor sees on the extreme right and left two great Triumphal Arches. The one on the right is the Arch of the Rising Sun and is surmounted by a magnificent statuary group. The Nations of the East, the figures symbolizing life in the Orient, while the Arch on the left has a group of the same proportions, The Nations of the West, symbolical of life in the Occident

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