The words and music for "Gloria Washington," the official march of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, were written by Frederick Neil Innes (1854-1926), a musician and conductor from Chicago who served as the Fair's director of music. The score was copyrighted by F. B. Innes and published by Clegg Publishing Company of St. Paul, Minnesota. The AYPE was a world's fair held in 1909 on the campus of Seattle's University of Washington to promote the development of the Pacific Northwest.
Caption information source: "Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909): Music at the Fair" Peter Blecha, historylink.org Essay 8876. Caption information source: The Seattle Sunday Times, October 26, 1958, p. 133.
Physical Description: 1 score (5 p.) + 1 part ; 10.5 x 13.75 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.
