Phantasmagorical and gilded, the Court of Abundance rises in hand-colored splendor on this souvenir card from the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition — San Francisco's world-defying answer to the 1906 earthquake, staged on 635 landfill acres along the bay to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal and the city's own resurrection. Louis C. Mullgardt's Spanish-Gothic Tower of Jewels looms at left, encrusted with 100,000 cut-glass "Novagems" that shimmered in the California sun, while the Arch of the Rising Sun recedes into the distance and the Fountain of Earth anchors the 340-foot-square courtyard in the foreground with its writhing figurative sculpture. The reverse text — printed by Souvenir Guide Publishers of the Hobart Building, San Francisco — describes the court in authoritative detail, noting the 75-foot walls and 200-foot tower. This card was never mailed and survives in exceptional condition, a pristine artifact of one of America's most celebrated world's fairs.