1940 Pageant of the Pacific - Complete Set of Maps w/ booklet

A unique opportunity to acquire the complete, original set of six maps with the accompanying booklet and portfolio of the Pageant of the Pacific by Miguel Covarrubias made for the Pacific House during the 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition held on Treasure Island in San Francisco, CA.  As described within the booklet accompanying the portfolio, it's "purpose is to extend the knowledge of countries of the Pacific Basin to create those friendly relations which make a wider understanding of peoples.... Miguel Covarrubias was selected as the one who could make visual the idea of the Pacific Area, not only with the imagination and skill of a great artist, but with an understanding of the verities and needs all peoples hold in common. Covarrubias is an ethnologist and anthropologist, subtle and sensitive to the unrecorded past of unknown peoples, with a humorous, penetrating perspicacity of contemporaneous life, and a wide knowledge of the governmental forms and trade relations, of th