Jack Adams' racing canoe, 1909

In 1909, Jack Adams, a member of the Suquamish Tribe, built a canoe for an Indian canoe race at Seattle's Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The event was on September 6, and the finish line was at the foot of the fair's Pay Streak, in Portage Bay. Adams built the 48-foot craft from a single...

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spelling ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:imlsmohai/6921 2023-05-15T18:48:35+02:00 Jack Adams' racing canoe, 1909 Unknown Seattle (Wash.) Scanned from copy negative using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 4. http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/6921 unknown Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection shs11726 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/6921 Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) Seattle Historical Society Collection Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle Wash.) Canoes Suquamish Indians image; photograph ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T14:56:11Z In 1909, Jack Adams, a member of the Suquamish Tribe, built a canoe for an Indian canoe race at Seattle's Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The event was on September 6, and the finish line was at the foot of the fair's Pay Streak, in Portage Bay. Adams built the 48-foot craft from a single cedar log. In this photo, he and ten other men paddle the canoe on Portage Bay. Original photograph: 1909. Copied after 1975 by the Museum of History and Industry. 1 acetate negative: b&w; 2 x 2.5 in. Other/Unknown Material Alaska Yukon University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Yukon Pacific Indian
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topic Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle
Wash.)
Canoes
Suquamish Indians
spellingShingle Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle
Wash.)
Canoes
Suquamish Indians
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Jack Adams' racing canoe, 1909
topic_facet Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle
Wash.)
Canoes
Suquamish Indians
description In 1909, Jack Adams, a member of the Suquamish Tribe, built a canoe for an Indian canoe race at Seattle's Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The event was on September 6, and the finish line was at the foot of the fair's Pay Streak, in Portage Bay. Adams built the 48-foot craft from a single cedar log. In this photo, he and ten other men paddle the canoe on Portage Bay. Original photograph: 1909. Copied after 1975 by the Museum of History and Industry. 1 acetate negative: b&w; 2 x 2.5 in.
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title Jack Adams' racing canoe, 1909
title_short Jack Adams' racing canoe, 1909
title_full Jack Adams' racing canoe, 1909
title_fullStr Jack Adams' racing canoe, 1909
title_full_unstemmed Jack Adams' racing canoe, 1909
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op_coverage Seattle (Wash.)
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Pacific
Indian
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Pacific
Indian
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Yukon
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op_source Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI)
Seattle Historical Society Collection
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op_rights Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved
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