Curtiss airplane piloted by Eugene B. Ely flying over a U. S. Navy ship in Elliott Bay during Golden Potlatch, Seattle, July 1911
Seattleās 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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