File:Crowd of people along Alaskan Way near Marion St, during the Golden Potlatch, Seattle, July 17, 1912 (SEATTLE 5805).jpg

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English: Crowd of people along Alaskan Way near Marion St., during the Golden Potlatch, Seattle, July 17, 1912   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Crowd of people along Alaskan Way near Marion St., during the Golden Potlatch, Seattle, July 17, 1912
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Written on negative: Arrival of Sourdoughs on Str Portland

Potlatch celebrations included a re-enactment of the steamship Portland's return to Seattle bearing two tons of gold found along the Klondike River in 1897.

PH Coll 794.139

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Floats (Parade)
  • Subjects (LCSH): Parade floats

At this time this would have been Railroad Avenue. The addition of the seawall that turned this into Alaskan Way was over 20 years later.
Depicted place Seattle
Date Taken on 17 July 1912
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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