Burnside Hats float in Golden Potlatch parade, Seattle, July 1911

• Main Author: Nowell & Rognon
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Floats (Parades) > Washington (State) > Seattle; Golden Potlatch Festival (1911: Seattle; Wash.); Parades & processions > Washington (State) > Seattle; Spectators > Washington (State) > Seattle; Yukon; Pacific; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/5588

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. Here, the Burnside Hat company's float has a group of girls standing inside a giant hat with a banner reading "Our Daddies Wear Burnside Hats." In the foreground, a crowd of people look on as the parade float rolls down a street in Belltown. 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; 6.75 x 4.75 in.