Crowd watching Pow Wow event in Seward Park, Seattle, August 7, 1949

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Crowd watching Pow Wow event in Seward Park, Seattle, August 7, 1949

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The Rainier District Pow Wow began in the midst of the Great Depression as a day-long community picnic at Seward Park. Between 1934 and 1992, when it ended, pow wow events paralleled what was going on in the rest of the country, celebrating neighborhood commerce in the 1930s, patriotism during World War II, the Baby Boom of the late 1940s to mid-1950s, and so on. Eventually, the pow wow became part of Seattle’s Seafair.

Here, in August 1949, spectators gather in Seward Park to watch a Rainier District Pow Pow water event.

Caption information source: "Rainier District Pow Wow (1934-1992)," by Cassandra Tate, HistoryLink.org Essay 9526.
Caption information also derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.

ID Number: 2000.107.185.01.01

Date: 1949

Creator(s): Carter, Fred, Photographer

Physical Description: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 9.5 x.7.5 in.

Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant.

Credit: MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, 2000.107.185.01.01, photo by Fred Carter

Subjects: Celebrations, Neighborhoods, Entertainment, Cultural Appropriation