164 results for: Klondike-Alaska Gold Rush
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Sourdough Club on ship "Portland" during Golden Potlatch, Seattle, July 17, 1912
The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen, who used Native American imagery to promote tourism and the economic development of the city. The appropriation of culture in order to market products or events is a common example of discrimination and marginalization faced by Indigenous peoples in the United States. In…
ID Number:1954.776.1
Date:1912
Music, notated
The Potlatch Bug: A Ragtime Song of the Golden Potlatch
The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal, civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen, who used Native American imagery to promote tourism and the economic development of the city. In July 1911 the Tilikums ("Friends" in Chinook Jargon;" Elttaes" is Seattle spelled backward) organized the first Golden Potlatch celebration. The Golden Potlatch was a city-wide festival held…
ID Number:1963.3018.3
Date:1912
Poster
Golden Potlatch ad, Seattle, 1911
The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal, civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen, who used Native American imagery to promote tourism and the economic development of the city. In July 1911 the Tilikums ("Friends" in Chinook Jargon; "Elttaes" is "Seattle" spelled backward) organized the first Golden Potlatch celebration. The Golden Potlatch was a city-wide festival held…
ID Number:1963.3018.4.1
Date:1911
Photograph
Frank Lawson and George W. Carmack, circa 1920
This double portrait depicts Yukon Order of Pioneers Seattle Lodge No. 2 members Frank Lawson and George W. Carmack wearing YOOP sashes, with the YOOP banner depicted in the center.George W. Carmack was a gold miner in the Yukon Territory. Carmack, his brother-in-law Kèsh (of the Tagish People, also known as Skookum Jim or James Mason ), and Kèsh nephew…
ID Number:1966.3948.2
Date:Circa 1920
Photograph
Yukon Order of Pioneers Seattle No. 2 members, circa 1920
This photo depicts members of the Seattle No. 2 Lodge of the Yukon Order of Pioneers wearing the YOOP sash, with the lodge banner in the center. Seated to the left of the banner is George W. Carmack, and to the right, George T. Snow.The Yukon Order of Pioneers (YOOP) fraternal organization was formed on December 1, 1894 at Forty…
ID Number:1966.3948.4
Date:Circa 1920
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George Butler and George T. Snow, circa 1920
This double portrait depicts Yukon Order of Pioneers (YOOP) Seattle Lodge No. 2 members George Butler and George T. Snow wearing YOOP sashes, with the YOOP banner depicted in the center.The Yukon Order of Pioneers (YOOP) fraternal organization was formed on December 1, 1894 at Forty Mile, Yukon Territory, Canada. With the motto "Do unto others as you would be…
ID Number:1966.3948.38
Date:Circa 1920
Photograph
Portrait of Ringwald Blix, circa 1925
In this photograph, Blix is wearing a badge of the Alaska-Yukon Pioneers, Cabin No. 1, Seattle, Wash. Around 1896, Ringwald Blix built the highly regarded Blix Roadhouse in Copper Center, Alaska. Blix also served as U.S. commissioner and postmaster in Copper Center before leaving Alaska for Seattle in 1918.The Alaska-Yukon Pioneers fraternal organization was probably formed in Seattle when the…
ID Number:1966.3948.92
Date:Circa 1925
Photograph
Alaska-Yukon Pioneers Committee presenting a key to the city to sled dog Balto at Pier 2, Seattle, March 22, 1925
Balto was the lead sled dog on Gunnar Kaasen's 1925 Serum Run team, delivering diphtheria antitoxin serum to doctors at Nome, Alaska on the last leg of the relay. Balto and Kaasen arrived in Seattle on the Alaska Steamship Company's steamship Alameda, and they were honored at a ceremony on Pier 2 in Seattle by a committee representing the Alaska-Yukon…
ID Number:1966.3948.100
Date:1925
Correspondence
Letter on birch bark, August 29, 1898
The letter pictured here was written on birch bark by Joe Masters, a prospector, to his wife while traveling up the Koyukuk River in Alaska. Gold deposits were discovered on the middle fork of the river, sparking a gold rush similar to the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon Territory of Canada 500 miles to the east. In 1898 about…
ID Number:1969.4798.8
Date:1898
Photograph
Suess Art Glass float for Potlatch parade, Seattle, circa 1920
In this image employees of the Suess Art Glass Company, dressed for a parade, pose in front of the company building at 764 Virginia Street in downtown Seattle. The company had begun in 1901, a few months after third-generation glazer and founder John Bernard Suess (1875-1930) moved to Seattle from Chicago with his wife, Bertha (Stumpf) Suess (1876-), and daughter…
ID Number:1971.5110.2
Date:Circa 1920