Exposition

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Philipino’s at A.Y.P.E.; Balloon Ascention sic; Forestry Building. . . ; Administration Building. . . H.G. Hawley standing in right-hand entrance -- four original mounted photographs documenting sites at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.

1909réf. 61345Seattle WA: n.p. 1909. Four original photographs 3 silver gelatin & 1 albumen sized 3.75 x 4.5 in. to 3.75 x 5 in. with three mounted on dark brown w/ white border studio board 4th on beige embossed studio board all w/ title caption manuscript annotations on versos minor soiling edgewear some thumbing minor spotting to albumen image still a VG group of photographs. An exceptional quartet of vernacular souvenir photographs capturing events & sights at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. These open with an image of one of the most popular Pay Streak attractions the Indigenous People’s villages attractions featuring the Igorrotes from the northern Philippines. The Igorrote Village showed traditional dwellings daily activities such as dances meal preparation weaving and farming and followed the pattern of earlier appearances at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair and 1905 Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition. The Pay Streak included as well the Cairo & Oriental Village geisha girls in the Japan Village exhibit the Formosa Tea Parlor the Chinese Village as well as a roller-coaster like scenic railway the Temple of Palmistry the very popular Eskimo Village the Battle of Gettysburg Cyclorama and more. The balloon ascension photo captures the “Captive Balloon” which was tethered southeast of the main A-Y-P grounds from which photographer Vern Grinnold was able to capture his aerial photo of the grounds. The other two depict the Forestry Building which was one of the largest log houses ever built featuring a frontage of 320 feet and designed by Charles Saunders and George Lawton; along with the Administration Building. n.p., unknown

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