| 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. In this photograph, a formation of horses heads south on First Avenue toward James Street, approaching a turn in front of the Pioneer building. Streamers of flags decorate the buildings along the parade route. 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; 9.5 x 7.5
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