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Japanese American Seafair royalty crossing the street in downtown Seattle, Washington, November 18, 1961
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| Title | Japanese American Seafair royalty crossing the street in downtown Seattle, Washington, November 18, 1961 |
| Photographer | Ogawa, Elmer, 1906-1970 |
| Date | 1961 |
| Notes | This image is from a series of photographs taken several months before the official opening day of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, when Japanese American Seafair royalty and representatives from the Japanese American Citizens League took a walking tour of the Century 21 fairgrounds as a means of generating publicity for the event.
Support beams for the Seattle Monorail system can be seen at right, and the Space Needle in an early phase of construction can be seen in the background.
Stamped on image border: Photo by Elmer Ogawa
Filed in: Ogawa 10-5-42 |
| Contextual Notes | The first Seafair festival took place from August 11 to August 20, 1950. The celebration was designed to attract tourists and to reinforce Seattle's position as the self-proclaimed "boating capital of the world" through water-themed events and attractions. Hundreds of thousands of people attended over 100 events throughout King County, which included boat and bicycle races, water-skiing competitions, musical performances, neighborhood parades and parties, and coronation ceremonies for Seafair water kings and queens. The tradition continues to this day, and is perhaps best known for the hydroplane races that take place on Lake Washington, the aerial acrobatics of the Navy's Blue Angels, and the elaborate Seafair Torchlight Parade that closes the festival each year. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Beauty contestants--Washington (State)--Seattle; Women--Washington (State)--Seattle; Streets--Washington (State)--Seattle; Building construction--Washington (State)--Seattle; Towers--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Japanese Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle; Space Needle (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Location Depicted | Unites States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Society and Culture Collection
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| Order Number | SOC3197
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| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.washington.edu/specialcoll/service/reproduction.html
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collection Division |
| Repository Collection | Elmer Ogawa Photograph Collection. PH Coll 178 |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanner 1000x at 120 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2011 |
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