Begun as "Festival '71" in 1971, Seattle's Bumbershoot has become one of North America's largest urban arts festivals, held annually over Labor Day weekend at the Seattle Center.
This poster for the third Bumbershoot festival features a giant rainbow umbrella over a Space Needle-topped pencil marking an "X" on Seattle Center on a map of Washington, with other weather and landscape imagery.
Text on poster: BUMBERSHOOT, festival '73 August 22-26
Artist's signature: L. L.
Caption information source: "Bumbershoot," by Paul Dorpat, HistoryLink.org Essay 10027. Caption information source: https://onereel.org/bumbershoot-history
Physical Description: 1 poster : color ; 17.5 x 23 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
