Summary: | Ceremonies held at 3rd Avenue N and Mercer St in anticipation of upcoming Century 21 Exposition (Seattle World's Fair). Events included the completion of a cross-country trip by "Model T and other Ford automobiles.[which] was a re-creation of a race which opened the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, forerunner of the Century 21 Exposition.; speeches by William Clay Ford of Dearborn, Mich., a grandson of the founder of the Ford Motor Co.; a rocket-firing by Governor Rosellini; speeches by Dean H. Eastman, president of the Chamber of Commerce, Century 21 music and groundbreaking for the construction of the exposition's State Building." (Seattle Times, June 23, 1959, p. 1) Title taken from handwritten caption on verso. Date stamped on verso. 25 x 18.2 cm Master image scanned on Epson 10000 XL flatbed at 600 ppi, 24 bit color, saved as TIFF file. Photoshop used to reduce access image to 600 pixels on long edge; master image file size: 76,168,128 bytes.
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