111 results for: Tourism
Music, notated
Golden Potlatch Carnival March and Two Step
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:1980.7097A.1
Date:1912
Music, notated
The New Steel Trail
The Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway, known as The Milwaukee Road, started service between the Midwest and Seattle in 1909. In 1911, the company added two new, all-steel, state of the art trains to the line, one of which was called The Olympian. When the United States entered World War I in 1918, the Milwaukee Road reduced all trains'…
ID Number:1980.7097A.15
Date:1918
Music, notated
The Potlatch Tickle
The music for "The Potlatch Tickle (A Seattle Rag)" was composed by Donald A. Robertson, arranged by Carl A. Weber, and published by the Empire Music Publishing Company of Seattle. A native of Germany, Carl Alfred Weber (1863-1929) came to Seattle about 1910 and opened a music studio where he taught and arranged music. Donald Alexander Robertson (1888-1934) was a…
ID Number:1980.7097A.28
Date:1911
Ephemera
The Guide, December 29, 1934
Begun in December 1922, The Guide (or the Official Weekly Guide to Seattle & Seattle Amusement Guide) was a weekly publication for visitors to Seattle and offered for free through authorized dealers or at a subscription of $3 per year. Joseph Dana Roberts (1907-1952) is listed as the editor and publisher, with Tom Renton as the staff artist, operating out…
ID Number:1980.7166.4.1
Date:1934
Postcard
Model T driving through cedar stump, circa 1913
Ford automobiles popularized car vacations and Sunday drives. This postcard shows a Model T driving through a huge cedar stump on one of Washington's scenic back roads. Caption on image: A Washington Cedar Stump.Photographer's Reference Number: 45
ID Number:1981.7224.2.5
Date:Circa 1913
Ephemera
White Pass & Yukon Route leaflet, circa 1910
When gold was discovered in the Yukon in 1897, prospectors had to make the dangerous journey on foot from the Alaska coast to the gold fields, some 550 miles into the Canadian interior. After the building of the first section of the White Pass & Yukon Route railroad in 1898-1899, the trip, which had formerly taken days, could now be…
ID Number:1981.7290.3
Date:1910
Photograph
Washington Saw Works Company Golden Potlatch float, Seattle, 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. 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:1981.7351.159
Date:1912
Photograph
Inn at Granite Falls, circa 1925
Starting in the late 1910s, The Seattle Times described a number of auto tours people could make to various scenic locations. One of these was a springtime tour to the town of Granite Falls and the nearby waterfall on the Stillaguaqmish River. This photo, taken on a spring day around 1925, shows the inn at Granite Falls, surrounded by hills…
ID Number:1983.10.294
Date:1925
Photograph
Lake Retreat, January 1, 1925
By the 1920s, The Seattle Times ran regular articles describing trips that Seattleites could take in their cars. A January 1925 Seattle Times Auto Tour took drivers out through the countryside to Lake Retreat, a secluded spot east of Ravensdale, near Kent. This photo, taken for the Times' tour article, shows Lake Retreat. Webster & Stevens number: 111849
ID Number:1983.10.457.6
Date:1925
Photograph
Tourists in open-top observation cars, 1925
In the summer of 1925, the Great Northern Railway inaugurated its new open-top observation cars in the Rocky Mountains near Glacier Park. In Seattle, the railroad kicked off this new service with an open-air trip between King Street Station and Skykomish.In this 1925 photo, a group of sightseers sit in the Glacier Park observation car in Seattle's King Street Station…
ID Number:1983.10.495.2
Date:1925