132 results for: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE)
Photograph
James J. Hill seated in automobile, Seattle, circa 1909
Canadian-American railroad executive James Jerome Hill (1838-1916), nicknamed the "Empire Builder," was perhaps more significant to the framing of the empire of the Pacific Northwest than any other individual. He built the Great Northern Railroad and also controlled the Northern Pacific and Burlington railroads. Mr. Hill's decisions about rail routes and station stops had the power to turn fledging communities…
ID Number:1956.1029.1
Date:Circa 1909
Ephemera
"Location of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition" advertising card, circa 1909
Singer Sewing Machines, founded in 1851 in Boston, was the largest sewing machine manufacturer in the world by 1860. The company was known for its innovations in installment payment plans and early advertising, as well as creating international markets. Singer had a history of creating trading cards for world's expositions, including an international set of cards for the Columbian Exposition…
ID Number:1964.3317.1.1
Date:Circa 1909
Ephemera
"A Shipmast Being Loaded at Port Blakely Mills, Near Seattle, Wash." advertising card, circa 1909
Singer Sewing Machines, founded in 1851 in Boston, was the largest sewing machine manufacturer in the world by 1860. The company was known for its innovations in installment payment plans and early advertising, as well as creating international markets. Singer had a history of creating trading cards for world's expositions, including an international set of cards for the Columbian Exposition…
ID Number:1964.3317.1.2
Date:Circa 1909
Postcard
Two men with train backdrop at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
This souvenir postcard from the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition shows two men posing within a train backdrop. Such souvenirs photographs, depicting subjects against various backgrounds, were popular among fairgoers at the AYPE. Text on sign on train: Exposition Special A.Y.P Through Train Spokane to SeattleText on sign on train: North Coast Limited
ID Number:1966.4058.6
Date:1909
Postcard
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition promotional postcard, Seattle, circa 1909
Promotional photograph for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, with illustrations connecting Seattle to Alaska (including with an Alaska Native totem pole), which encourages people to arrive by steamship and railroad. Caption on image: Hello Bill! Meet me on the Pay Streak at the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition - June 1st - Oct 16th - Seattle U.S.A. 1909.Postcard Number: 1853
ID Number:1966.4058.8
Date:Circa 1909
Music, notated
Seattle's Plenty Good Enough for Me
By 1908, Seattle had seen eleven years of rapid growth and prosperity, beginning in 1897 with the arrival of the first shipment of gold from the Yukon gold fields. "Seattle's Plenty Good Enough for Me" was one of a number of songs written at that time promoting the Pacific Northwest's good climate for business and trade. This marketing and development…
ID Number:1969.4635.6
Date:1908
Postcard
Birdseye view of Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
This aerial illustration highlights the new buildings forthe Alaska-Yukon-Pacific with the Elliott Bay, Lake Washington, and Mt. Rainier in the background. Caption on image: Birdseye view of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, Washington.Postcard number: 1922
ID Number:1969.4756.11
Date:1909
Serial
Votes for Women, Vol. 1, No. 1, October 1909
Missouri T.B. Hanna (1857-1926) was the first woman publisher in Washington State, and was heralded as “the mother of journalism” in Washington.Hanna, who also went by “Mrs. M.T.B. Hanna,” moved to Spokane Falls in Washington Territory in 1882, and then to the waterfront mill town of Edmonds in 1904. In 1905 Hanna purchased the weekly "Edmonds Review" and published it…
ID Number:1970.4814.5
Date:1909
Photograph
Hotel Sterling, 1412 3rd Ave., Seattle, circa 1906
This view of Third Avenue in downtown Seattle shows the Hotel Sterling. The hotel was built in 1903 during a boom in hotel development in conjunction with rising economic opportunities and population growth, as well as the opening of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) in 1909. The building was remodeled in 1934 by Stimson and McDonald, Architects, and still stands on…
ID Number:1972.5346.15
Date:Circa 1906
Postcard
Group of Igorot performers at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world's fair held in Seattle in 1909, publicizing the development of the Pacific Northwest. The fairgrounds became the campus of the University of Washington. One of the most popular attractions at the AYPE was the "Igorrote Village", a simulated village of the Igorot (previously spelled Igorrote), a diverse group of Indigenous peoples living in…
ID Number:1972.5502.13
Date:1909