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| Title | Curtiss airplane piloted by Eugene B. Ely flying over a U. S. Navy ship in Elliott Bay during Golden Potlatch, Seattle, July 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.
This photo shows an airplane flying high over a U. S. Navy warship while a seaplane hovers nearby over the water. During the Potlatch festival Navy lieutenant Eugene B. Ely, credited as the first pilot to take off and land on a ship, gave flight demonstrations in his Curtiss airplane three times a day. |
| 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. |
| Subjects | Biplanes--Washington (State)--Seattle; Bodies of water--Washington (State)--Seattle; Golden Potlatch Festival (1911: Seattle, Wash.); Warships--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle; Elliot Bay (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 2011.79.1.87 |
| 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 | 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; 6.75 x 4.75 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 | R2602 |
