Excerpt from Report of the Eleventh Industrial Exhibition Under the Auspices of the Mechanics' Institute of the City of San Francisco: Held at the Mechanics' Pavilion, Mission and Eighth Streets, From the 8th Day of August to the 6th Day of September, 1876 Feeling that holding Annual Exhibitions was a new departure, the Board determined to keep all expenses down as low as pos sible, but nevertheless to redouble their energies and make the Exhibition more than usually attractive, and no efforts were spared to this end. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.