IIlluminating the Jewel City: Spectacular Lighting at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition

Led by Laura Ackley, Architectural Historian

A discussion on the elaborate and ground-breaking lighting effects created for San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915. General Electric Illuminating Engineer Walter D'Arcy Ryan designed, for the first time, a "Total Illumination Plan," which skeptics claimed could not be realized.