File:Sourdough Club on ship "Portland" during Golden Potlatch, Seattle, July 17, 1912 (MOHAI 13132).jpg

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English: Sourdough Club on ship "Portland" during Golden Potlatch, Seattle, July 17, 1912   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
English: Nowell & Rognon:
Frank H. Nowell  (1864–1950)  wikidata:Q26202833
 
Frank H. Nowell
Alternative names
Frank Hamilton Nowell
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 19 February 1864 Edit this at Wikidata 19 October 1950 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Portsmouth
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q26202833
Orville J. Rognon  (–1958)  wikidata:Q56324320
 
Description photographer
Date of birth/death 1958 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Placer County
Work location
Seattle; Vancouver Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q56324320
Title
English: Sourdough Club on ship "Portland" during Golden Potlatch, Seattle, July 17, 1912
Description
English:

The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal, civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen, who used Native American imagery to promote tourism and the economic development of the city. In July 1911 the Tilikums ("Friends" in Chinook Jargon; Elttaes is Seattle spelled backward) organized the first Golden Potlatch celebration. The Golden Potlatch was a city-wide festival held in July organized by civic boosters hoping to capitalize on the success of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909. The event continued for each of the next three summers before being suspended during wartime, and then was started up again as the Potlatch Festival from 1934 to 1941.

The name “Golden Potlatch” appropriates a Chinook Jargon word describing a Native ceremony of celebration and gift giving. It also reflects the importance of the Klondike gold rush to Seattle’s growth. Many organizers and participants in the Golden Potlatch dressed in stereotyped imitations of traditional Native attire, as part of a created Potlatch myth. The appropriation of Native culture in order to market products or events was one common example of discrimination and marginalization faced by Native peoples in the United States.

In this image, members of the Sourdough Club pose aboard the gold ship "Portland," some wearing redface. "Sourdoughs" was a nickname for people who had spent time in Alaska or Canada during the Yukon Gold Rush, and various clubs around Seattle celebrated this population. The donor of the photograph, William Forndran, is the man identified with the number "62," located fourth from the right and straddling the railing, to the right of the child.

Other possible identifications, handwritten on catalog card: 1-Cormack; 67-John Wilson; 31-Jake Cina [?]; 28-Arthur Winters Handwritten on image: Copyright 1912, Nowell & Rognon, Seattle. Sourdoughs aboard Gold Ship "Portland," Seattle, July 17 - 1912. Handwritten on print: Wm Forndran

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Festivals--Washington (State)--Seattle; Gold miners--Washington (State)--Seattle; Group portraits; Reunions--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • People: Nowell, Frank H., 1864-1950
Depicted place
English: United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Date Taken on 17 July 1912
Medium
English: 1 photographic print mounted on masonite: colorized
Dimensions height: 31 in (78.7 cm); width: 24 in (60.9 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,31U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,24U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
13132
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
Permission
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Public domain
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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MOHAI, 1954.776.1

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