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| Title | New Jersey Tercentenary Commission secretary David Davies smoking a peace pipe, Seattle World's Fair, 1962 |
| Photographer | Staff photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1962 |
| Caption | David Davies, secretary of the New Jersey Tercentenary Commission is shown smoking a peace pipe with Native Americans. Fair officials had provided substandard lodging for a group of New Jersey visitors attending their state's celebration day. Upon learning of the mistake, fair officials offered the group new accommodations and free admission, and Native Americans performing at the Indian Village offered the pipe of peace. |
| 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. 142
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more):July 21, 1962 |
| Subjects | Calumets; Century 21 Exposition (1962: Seattle, Wash.); Indians of North America--Washington (State) |
| Personal Names | Davies, David S. |
| Places | Queen Anne (Seattle, Wash.); United States—Washington (State)—Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.2754.1 |
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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; 120 roll film |
| 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. |
