THE PAVILION PALACE OF INDUSTRY ... By Rev. Dr. Scott, of San Francisco. San Francisco: Hutchings & Rosenfield, Publishers, 146 Montgomery St. Whitton, Towne & Co., Printers, 151 Clay St., 1857. 21.5x13.7 cm, pp. [1-3] 4-24, 1 illustration, lacks wrappers, sewn. First edition, first printing. Discourse on the Industrial Exhibition at the Mechanics' Institute delivered by William Anderson Scott in the Calvary Church, 23 August 1857. The 1857 Industrial Exhibition was the inaugural fair hosted by the Mechanics' Institute in San Francisco, kicking off an influential series of thirty-one biennial, and later annual, expositions held between 1857 and 1899 to promote Californian industry, agriculture, and innovation. Held for four weeks, beginning on September 7, 1857, the first fair was attended by approximately 10,000 visitors, representing roughly 25% of San Francisco's adult population. This and subsequent fairs, established San Francisco as a hub for industry and invention in the West. 941 items were exhibited at this first fair: James Mason Hutchings exhibited a sketch of Yo Hamite Valley by Thomas A. Ayres and California State Geologist John Boardman Trask exhibited quartz and other minerals. William Anderson Scott (1813-1885), an American Presbyterian minister born Rock Creek, Tennessee, was called to San Francisco in 1854 as the first pastor of the Calvary Presbyterian Church. His attack upon the general principles of the activities of the Vigilance committee of San Francisco in 1856 made him unpopular among the supporters of that institution. For his sympathy for the institution of slavery and his violent anti-Union utterances at the beginning of the American Civil War he was hanged in effigy. He left for England in 1861 and did not return to San Francisco until 1870 where he served as the first pastor of St. John's Presbyterian Church from 1870 until his death. Cowan (1933), p. 574. Greenwood 874. Kruska, Hutchings 41. Lacks wrappers, small bookseller's label affixed to page 24, a very good copy. (179181).
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