Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. Seattle’s first World’s Fair, the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, made Seattle a Pacific Rim gateway. View materials from SPL and the Museum of History and Industry in this collection.
Riverside School., ca. 1920
Transcribed from photograph: "Seattle Schools. Riverside School. Detroit and Juneau. Built 1888; annexed 1908; closed 1926. Exterior. Frame. Three-quarter view of front and right side."
Identifier: spl_shp_22896
Date: 1920?
View this itemDescriptive catalogue of the collection of Japanese woods and photographs of forests exhibited at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, 1909
Catalog containing descriptions of all the different types of wood from Japan as well as the photographs of Japanese national forests on display at the A.Y.P.E. Descriptions include "locality," "nature" (general physical description of the tree) and "uses." Includes Japanese names as well as Latin names for trees. 50 pages, 19 cm.
Identifier: spl_ayp_2525440
Date: 1909
View this itemWilliam M. Allen, ca. 1960
Transcribed from photograph: "Seattle Portraits. Allen, William M, 1900- ."
Identifier: spl_shp_21676
Date: 1960?
View this itemIllustrations for lecture, Feb 26 1948 (5 of 7)
Mark Tobey was born in Centerville, WI in 1890. Beginning his career as an illustrator, Mark Tobey was a deeply religious man, converting to the universalist Baha'i faith in 1918, which would in some way influence all of his works. After extensive traveling, including a period of time at a Zen monastery in Japan, Tobey taught art and philosophy at Dartington Hall in England until 1937. He then developed his "white writing" technique, painting white cursive writing on dark canvas, a technique which he (and many other Northwest artists) would use extensively until his death. He was one of the four painters LIFE magazine described as "Northwest Mystics". The others were Guy Anderson, Morris Graves and Kenneth Callahan. He died in 1976 in Basel, Switzerland.
Identifier: spl_art_T552il5
Date: 1948
View this itemInvitation from Rear Admiral H. Ijichi and the Imperial Japanese Training Squadron to event on board of H.I.J.M.S. "Aso," June 9, 1909
Printed invitation card to event to be held from 3:00 until 6:00. Card states that "boats will be in attendance at the foot of Madison St." and asks for guests to present the card to the "officer in charge of boats."
Identifier: mohai_ayp_2006.3.47.4b
Date: 1909-06-09
View this itemArgus: A.Y.P. ed., February 20, 1909
Special A.Y.P.E. edition of "the Argus" magazine. Articles concern the city of Seattle, the exposition, the Pay Streak, etc. Authors include J. E. Chilberg, Director General I. A. Nadeau, J. A. Wood, Robert Watson Boyce, George W. Kummer, Geo. E. Boos and C. B. Yandell. Also includes several pages of advertisements. Argus 16:3 (20 February 1909). 80 pages, 31 cm, illustrated.
Identifier: spl_ayp_160304
Date: 1909-02-20
View this itemSouvenir programme of the sixth annual musical festival given by Pacific Kystens Norske Sangerforbund, August 28th to 31st, 1909
Souvenir book with lists of Norwegian societies participating in the A.Y.P.E. as well as their portraits. Also contains program for the "Grand Concert" with portraits of chorus members and conductors. Approximately 60 pages, 18 x 27 cm, illustrated.
Identifier: spl_ayp_214269
Date: 1909-08
View this itemA-Y-P Addition real estate brochure, ca. 1909
Joseph E. Thomas & Company, Inc. real estate brochure advertising lots for sale on Ravenna Boulevard in the "A-Y-P Addition."
Identifier: mohai_ayp_2006.3.51
Date: 1909?
View this itemWorkers on Space Needle Restaurant level, ca. December 28, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_76210019
Date: 1961-12-28
View this itemProgram of the Seventh Annual Convention of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, July 12-15, 1909
Includes titles of papers presented during proceedings at the Hoo-Hoo House and Fine Arts Hall and a list of lumber industry companies that served as hosts. Booklet with wood cover and six wood pages bound with leather ties.
Identifier: mohai_ayp_2006.3.33
Date: 1909-07
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