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| Title | Rainier District Powwow royalty with sailors, Seattle, 1944 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1944 |
| Caption | The Rainier District Powwow was first held in 1937 and continued through 1990. During those 53 years it attracted thousands of people to Seward Park for running and swimming races, beauty contests, pie eating contests, wrestling matches, boat races, and much more. Over the years just about every type of entertainment was presented. For several years they combined with Seattle Seafair activities and hosted the closing ceremonies, complete with fireworks displays put on by internationally known and locally owned Hitt Fireworks Co. |
| Notes | Handwritten on verso: Left-Right - Joyce Bannister, Doreen Zacnic, Delores Culbertson, Bonnie Holt. |
| Subjects | Beauty contestants--Washington (State)--Seattle
Sailors--American--Washington (State)--Seattle
Festivals--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Seward Park (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Rainier Valley Historical Society Photograph Collection |
| Accession Number | 98.042.03 |
| Ordering Information | To order a copy of this photograph, please email Rvhsoffice@aol.com and mention the Accession Number. |
| Repository | Rainier Valley Historical Society, Seattle |
| Repository Collection | Duncan Collection |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print: b&w; 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
