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| Title | Japanese dancers performing at the Northwest bandshell at Festival 71, Seattle Center, August 1971 |
| Photographer | Brownell
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1971 |
| Caption | Held in August 1971, Festival 71 was the first event after the 1961 Seattle World's Fair to utilize the entire Seattle Center campus. The event was repeated as Festival 72 the following year, becoming Bumbershoot in 1973. Bumbershoot continues as North America's largest urban arts festival, taking place annually at Seattle Center over the Labor Day weekend
In this photo, dancers in traditional Japanese dress perform with fans onstage at the Northwest bandshell. |
| Notes | Caption information source: Becker, Paula, and Alan Stein. The future remembered: The Seattle World's Fair and its legacy. Seattle: Seattle Center Foundation, 2011. p. 270.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): August 16, 1971 |
| Subjects | Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle, Wash.); Dancers--Washington (State); Art festivals--Washington (State)--Seattle; Seattle Center (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Places | Queen Anne (Seattle, Wash.); United States—Washington (State)—Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.54911.1 |
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| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI). |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 35 mm |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS5, JPEG quality measurement 5. |
