File:Golden Potlatch spectators standing on train along Railroad Avenue, Seattle, July 1911 (MOHAI 5585).jpg
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[edit]English: Golden Potlatch spectators standing on train along Railroad Avenue, Seattle, July 1911
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English: Nowell & Rognon:
creator QS:P170,Q26202833
creator QS:P170,Q56324320 |
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English: Golden Potlatch spectators standing on train along Railroad Avenue, Seattle, July 1911 |
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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. This photo shows people standing atop railroad cars, buildings and bridges to gain a better view of Potlatch events happening at the waterfront, perhaps one of the daily airplane exhibition flights.The photographer identification is based on the resemblance of the numbering system and handwriting to attributed photos in the collection.
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English: United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
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Date | Taken on 1 July 1911 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: 1 photographic print: b&w |
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height: 7.5 in (19 cm); width: 9.5 in (24.1 cm) dimensions QS:P2048,7.5U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,9.5U218593 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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English: Museum of History and Industry |
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Credit Line InfoField | Seattle Potlatch Photograph Albums, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
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- July 1911 events in the United States
- 1911 in Seattle
- Black and white photographs of Seattle
- Photographs by Nowell & Rognon