| Summary: | Seattle’s first Golden Potlatch festival opened on July 17, 1911. The city-wide summer celebration was conceived by civic groups to celebrate the Klondike gold rush and capitalize on the success of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909. The week-long festival included concerts, parades, aircraft and boat demonstrations. Seattle’s annual Seafair celebrations each July continue the Potlatch tradition. This photograph shows part of a military and naval pageant that took place on July 21, 1911, as part of the Golden Potlatch festival. Men in uniform march north along First Avenue as spectators look on. The 50-foot totem pole, seen on the right, has been a landmark in Pioneer Square since 1899. The photographer identification is based on the resemblance of the numbering system and handwriting to attributed photos in the collection. Caption information source: HistoryLink.org. 1 photographic print: b&w; 9.75 x 7.75 in.
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