50 results for: Cultural Appropriation
Photograph
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
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
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
Music, notated
See Seattle: Official Song and Waltz of the A.Y.P. Exposition
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition was held on the University of Washington campus from June 1 to October 16, 1909. The fair celebrated the years of prosperity brought to the city since the first gold arrived from Alaska in 1897. “See Seattle” was promoted as "the official song and waltz of the A-Y-P Exposition," but many pieces were written to promote Seattle’s…
ID Number:1975.6130.1
Date:1909
Poster
Cole Brothers Circus and War Bonds poster, August 1943
William Washington Cole (1847-1915) began "W. W. Cole's Colossal Circus" in 1871 in Quincy, Illinois. In 1904 Cole sold his circus to Canadian showman Martin Downs and his son, James, the name became "Cole Bros. Circus." The show almost shut down during the Depression, but in 1934 two veteran circus managers -- Jesse Adkins (1886–1940) and Zack Terrell (1879–1954) --…
ID Number:1975.6159.3.11
Date:1943
Ephemera
Café Olympus New Year's booklet, 1912
The Olympus Café opened about 1898 at 112 1st Avenue South, "Situated right in the business district of Seattle ... Just South of the Totem Pole." This small booklet, printed with New Year's greetings, includes promotional text and a photo of the cafe's "Venetian Room."On each left-hand page is the emblem of the Golden Potlatch "Bug," which advertised the summer…
ID Number:1976.6296.7
Date:1912
Photograph
Portrait of Potlatch King Edgar L. Webster, Seattle, 1911
The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal, civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen who used imagery common to local Indigenous Peoples 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…
ID Number:1977.6531.2
Date:1911