San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition opened Feb. 20, 1915, nearly 100 years ago. To mark the upcoming anniversary, iPhone app ScenePast Americana collected a slew of vintage ...

Reporting from San Diego — A hundred years ago, San Francisco had something to prove. Its leaders wanted the world to know they had rebuilt since the earthquake and fires of 1906, and they wanted to ...

San Francisco recently did something it hasn’t done in a century: flipped the switch on giant lights blazing the year “1915” on the tower of its landmark Ferry Building. The numbers mark the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— 100 years ago, The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 was held in San Francisco as a celebration of the completion of the Panama Canal. Historians say it also served ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Bay Area historians marked a big event on Friday that took place exactly 100 years ago in San Francisco. On July 17, 1915, the Liberty Bell paraded along the streets of San ...

R.B. Hale had an idea in 1904 to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal: San Francisco should host an exposition. The owner of Hale Brothers Department Store wrote to his fellow directors of the ...

SAN DIEGO — A hundred years ago, San Francisco had something to prove. Its leaders wanted the world to know they had rebuilt since the earthquake and fires of 1906, and they wanted to woo the ...

Along San Francisco’s northern waterfront in 1915, thousands of residents and visitors admired such works of art as Claude Monet’s “Rouen Cathedral Facade” (1892), Winslow Homer’s “Saco Bay” (1896) ...

The petitions signed by hundreds of thousands of children did the trick. Philadelphia officials had to let the Liberty Bell go on one more tour despite the warnings that the aged, cracked bell might ...