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Government of Canada Pavilion, artist's rendering, Seattle World's Fair, January, 1962
Government of Canada Pavilion, artist's rendering, Seattle World's Fair, January, 1962
TitleGovernment of Canada Pavilion, artist's rendering, Seattle World's Fair, January, 1962
PhotographerUnknown
Date1962
NotesTypewritten on slide mount: Ha 5-Canadian Fair exhibit, one of largest

This slide appears to have been purchased by Alden B. Couch, Sales Director of the Puget Sound Power & Light Company, from a set of professional slides promoting the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.

PH Coll 1021.85
Historical Notes"The scientific achievements of Canada are highlighted in this exhibit, which includes a structural model of the first Canadian satellite, an electronic reservation machine, an aircraft device that automatically alerts rescue planes, a Cobalt cancer therapy unit used in medical research, and an exhibition of Eskimo painting and animated cartoons of Arctic life." (Official Guide Book, Seattle World's Fair 1962. Seattle: Acme Publications. p. 35.)
Subjects (LCTGM)Century 21 Exposition (1962 : Seattle, Wash.)--Facillities; Canada; Renderings
Subjects (LCSH)Exhibition buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle; Exhibitions--Washington (State)--Seattle
Location DepictedUnited States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Digital CollectionSeattle Photograph Collection
Order NumberSEA3337
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RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Repository CollectionAlden B. Couch Photographs of the Seattle World's Fair. PH Coll 1021
Object TypeSlide
Physical DescriptionColor; 35 mm.
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2011.
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