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| Title | Rainier District Powwow royalty in parade, Seattle, ca. 1973 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1973 |
| Caption | The Rainier District Powwow was first held in 1937 and continued through 1990. It attracted thousands of people to Seward Park for races, beauty contests, and games. Queen Cara Okoren and her court, princesses Grace Boscolo and Gail Lincicome are riding in the District parade in an antique car owned and operated by Newell Davis of the Cosmopolitan Travel Service. His wife Adele is the passenger. They were both very active in community projects and helped make the Powwow the huge sucess it was for 53 years. |
| Notes | Signs in image read: Queen Cara, Princesses Grace & Gail, Rainier Dist. Chamber of Commerce. Northwest Cosmopolitan Travel Svc.
Written on verso: Grace. |
| Subjects | Parades & processions--Washington (State)--Seattle
Beauty contestants--Washington (State)--Seattle
Festivals--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Seward Park (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Rainier Valley Historical Society Photograph Collection |
| Accession Number | 97.078.005G |
| Ordering Information | To order a copy of this photograph, please email Rvhsoffice@aol.com and mention the Accession Number. |
| Repository | Rainier Valley Historical Society, Seattle |
| Repository Collection | Morby Collection |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print: b&w; 3 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
