Avenue of Progress
Along Avenue of Progress: fine flag display; no direct sources of light; banners; beautiful scenes made by planting against walls and quality of green on lawn; daylight effect from luminous arcs which produce whitest artificial light in use.
Gas lights on tops of booths, emergency lights if electricity fails.
Banners and heraldic shields, designed by Ryan; banners, of early explorers and pioneers, heraldic shields related to history of California, Mexico, Central America, and Pacific Ocean.
Purpose of banners: to form beautiful lines of color, to screen eyes from direct light source, to reflect light toward buildings, and to suggest history of court.
Banners suspended, swung by wind, form moving spots of color.
Roman gateway, Palace of Varied Industries: faint light through small arches above doorway; delicate green lattice or grill work in door.
Light in doorways: appearance of life within, produced by reflectors inside palaces throwing light through glass of doors; new idea; contrast with dark windows of other expositions.
Arches of Machinery Palace: warm red glow in domes above; strong yellow through doors below.