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Giant cake commemorating Paul Bunyan's 128th birthday, Seattle World's Fair, April, 1962
Giant cake commemorating Paul Bunyan's 128th birthday, Seattle World's Fair, April, 1962
TitleGiant cake commemorating Paul Bunyan's 128th birthday, Seattle World's Fair, April, 1962
PhotographerCouch, Alden B.
Date1962
NotesPH Coll 1021.72
Historical NotesPaul Bunyan's birthday cake was mixed and baked by Van de Kamp's Holland Dutch Bakers in Seattle, and decorated by the Edison Technical School. It stood 23 feet high and weighed over 25,000 pounds, with a circumference of nearly 60 feet. The recipe consisted of 4,000 pounds of C & H sugar, 7,000 pounds of raisins, 1,500 dozen eggs, 2,200 pounds of pecans, 10,500 pounds of flour, and 100 pounds of salt.
Subjects (LCSH)Birthday cakes--Washington (State)--Seattle; Bunyan, Paul (Legendary character); Exhibitions--Washington (State)--Seattle; Loggers--Washington (State)--Folklore
Location DepictedUnited States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Digital CollectionSeattle Photograph Collection
Order NumberSEA3317
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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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