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| Title | Float with George Vancouver's ship the HMS Discovery in Golden Potlatch parade, Seattle, July 19, 1911 |
| Photographer | Nowell & Rognon |
| Date | 1911 |
| Caption | Seattle's first Golden Potlatch festival opened on July 17, 1911. The city-wide summer celebration was conceived by civic groups to celebrate the Klondike gold rush and capitalize on the success of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909. The week-long festival included concerts, parades, aircraft and boat demonstrations. Seattle's annual Seafair celebrations each July continue the Potlatch tradition.
The festival's historical pageant and parade took place on Wednesday, July 17. Proceeding in chronological order, the parade opened with a float depicting British Admiral George Vancouver on his ship Discovery, which sailed into the Strait of Juan de Fuca in 1792, the first Euorpean expedition to explore Puget Sound. The parade continued with twenty floats depicting the leading events of Northwest history, concluding with a float entitled "Seattle 1920." |
| Notes | The photographer identification is based on the resemblance of the numbering system and handwriting to attributed photos in the collection.
Caption information source: HistoryLink.org and The Seattle Daily Times, July 20, 1911. |
| Subjects | Buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle; Floats (Parades)--Washington (State)--Seattle; Golden Potlatch Festival (1911: Seattle, Wash.); Historical pageants--Washington (State)--Seattle; Parades & processions--Washington (State)--Seattle; Spectators--Washington (State)--Seattle; Streets--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Personal Names | Vancouver, George, 1757-1798 |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 2011.79.1.11 |
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| Credit Line | Seattle Potlatch Photograph Albums, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI). |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Potlatch Photograph Albums |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print: b&w; 7.5 x 9.5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original photograph using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 5. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | 8270 |
