Curtiss airplane piloted by Eugene B. Ely flying over a U. S. Navy ship in Elliott Bay during Golden Potlatch, Seattle, July 1911
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, aircra...
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ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:imlsmohai/5589 2023-05-15T18:48:56+02:00 Curtiss airplane piloted by Eugene B. Ely flying over a U. S. Navy ship in Elliott Bay during Golden Potlatch, Seattle, July 1911 Nowell & Rognon United States--Washington (State)--Seattle; Elliot Bay (Seattle, Wash.) Scanned from original photograph using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 5. http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/5589 unknown Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection 2011.79.1.87 R2602 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/5589 Seattle Potlatch Photograph Albums, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI). Seattle Potlatch Photograph Albums Biplanes--Washington (State)--Seattle Bodies of water--Washington (State)--Seattle Golden Potlatch Festival (1911: Seattle Wash.) Warships--Washington (State)--Seattle image; photograph ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T14:55:38Z 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 an airplane flying high over a U. S. Navy warship while a seaplane hovers nearby over the water. During the Potlatch festival Navy lieutenant Eugene B. Ely, credited as the first pilot to take off and land on a ship, gave flight demonstrations in his Curtiss airplane three times a day. 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. Other/Unknown Material Alaska Yukon University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Yukon Pacific Elliott ENVELOPE(102.867,102.867,-65.867,-65.867) Elliot ENVELOPE(166.533,166.533,-70.883,-70.883) Elliott Bay ENVELOPE(-103.101,-103.101,56.850,56.850) |
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Biplanes--Washington (State)--Seattle Bodies of water--Washington (State)--Seattle Golden Potlatch Festival (1911: Seattle Wash.) Warships--Washington (State)--Seattle Nowell & Rognon Curtiss airplane piloted by Eugene B. Ely flying over a U. S. Navy ship in Elliott Bay during Golden Potlatch, Seattle, July 1911 |
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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 an airplane flying high over a U. S. Navy warship while a seaplane hovers nearby over the water. During the Potlatch festival Navy lieutenant Eugene B. Ely, credited as the first pilot to take off and land on a ship, gave flight demonstrations in his Curtiss airplane three times a day. 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. |
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Curtiss airplane piloted by Eugene B. Ely flying over a U. S. Navy ship in Elliott Bay during Golden Potlatch, Seattle, July 1911 |
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Curtiss airplane piloted by Eugene B. Ely flying over a U. S. Navy ship in Elliott Bay during Golden Potlatch, Seattle, July 1911 |
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Curtiss airplane piloted by Eugene B. Ely flying over a U. S. Navy ship in Elliott Bay during Golden Potlatch, Seattle, July 1911 |
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Curtiss airplane piloted by Eugene B. Ely flying over a U. S. Navy ship in Elliott Bay during Golden Potlatch, Seattle, July 1911 |
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Curtiss airplane piloted by Eugene B. Ely flying over a U. S. Navy ship in Elliott Bay during Golden Potlatch, Seattle, July 1911 |
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curtiss airplane piloted by eugene b. ely flying over a u. s. navy ship in elliott bay during golden potlatch, seattle, july 1911 |
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United States--Washington (State)--Seattle; Elliot Bay (Seattle, Wash.) |
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ENVELOPE(102.867,102.867,-65.867,-65.867) ENVELOPE(166.533,166.533,-70.883,-70.883) ENVELOPE(-103.101,-103.101,56.850,56.850) |
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Yukon Pacific Elliott Elliot Elliott Bay |
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Yukon Pacific Elliott Elliot Elliott Bay |
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Alaska Yukon |
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Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI). Seattle Potlatch Photograph Albums |
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Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection 2011.79.1.87 R2602 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/5589 |
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Seattle Potlatch Photograph Albums, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
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