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| Title | Totem pole in Pioneer Square, Seattle, ca. 1911 |
| Photographer | Webster & Stevens |
| Date | ca. 1911 |
| Caption | The totem pole at Pioneer Square has been a Seattle landmark since 1899. In that year, a group of Seattle businessmen visited the Tlingit village of Tongass, in Alaska. They thought the village was deserted and removed the 50-foot tall pole as a souvenir. The village residents were away at work, however, and the businessmen were later fined for the theft of the pole. The pole was originally created as a memorial to a woman of the Raven Clan. After being damaged by fire in 1938, it was replaced by a duplicate pole carved by Tlingit craftsmen. |
| Notes | Signs in image: [...] Goldfarb, Tailor. Wm. Seeman, Merchant Tailor. Masquerade Costumes. Damus & Osner Real Estate. Merchants Cafe - Olympia Beer. Olympic Hotel. Northern Pacific Express Co. - Wells Fargo & Company Express - Burlington Route Freight & Ticket Office. Northern Pacific Ticket [Office]. Doctor Medical. Northern Pacific - Yellowstone Park [...]. [Calhoun?] Denny & [Ew...]. Ship [Brokers].
Handwritten on sleeve: Pioneer Square Totem Pole.
Caption by MOHAI staff. |
| Subjects | Totem poles--Washington (State)--Seattle; Business districts--Washington (State)--Seattle; Commercial streets--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Pioneer Square (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.8056.2 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 glass negative: b&w; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | 8700 |
