| 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 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. 1 photographic print: b&w; 7.5 x 9.5 in.
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