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.
Souvenir program of the Alaska Yukon Pacific Eisteddfod
Program for a Welsh literature and music festival held at the Exposition Auditorium on 27-28 August 1909. Includes lists and images of Eisteddfod Association officers, trustees, officials, literary adjudicators, presidents, and stockholders as well as schedule and conditions for literary and musical competitions. Printed lyrics to Virginius (English); Old Ironsides (English); Y Bore Olaf (Welsh); Prize Verses to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (English and Welsh); Ton Aberystwyth (Welsh); Ton Huddersfield (Welsh); Ton Crug-Y-Bar (Welsh); Ton Malvern (Welsh); God Be With You (English); America (English). 34 pages, illustrated.
Identifier: mohai_ayp_2006.3.34.3
Date: 1909
View this itemUnknown man in Galesburg, Illinois, ca. 1880
Photograph taken by Thomas Harrison in Galesburg, Illinois.
Identifier: spl_lj_043
Date: 1880?
View this itemExposition notes
A brief article reporting on the progress being made in terms of appropriation of funds to the A.Y.P.E. by participating states. Also includes biographical notes about the new director of works for the Exposition, Frank P. Allen, Jr. Coast 13.3 (March 1907): 202, illustrated.
Identifier: spl_ayp_179583_mar1907
Date: 1907
View this itemGeneral history, Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, fully illustrated: meet me in Seattle 1909
Complimentary book of photographs and essays including biographies of A.Y.P.E. officials, an essay on exposition's plan and scope, and descriptions of buildings and exhibits. Photographs include views of downtown Seattle streets and buildings, official photographs of A.Y.P.E. grounds and buildings under construction, scenic shots of Seattle and other Western Washington locations. Includes a section about the City of Seattle and its facilities, resources, and opportunities. Approximately 115 pages, 17 x 25 cm, illustrated.
Identifier: mohai_ayp_2006.3.15
Date: 1908?
View this itemInvitation to the celebration of McMinnville Day at the Oregon State Building on 10 July 1909
Printed invitation card for the reception with the program to be held at 11:00 and the reception to be held from 3:00 to 5:00.
Identifier: mohai_ayp_2006.3.46.9
Date: 1909
View this itemSouvenir programme of the sixth annual musical festival given by Pacific Kystens Norske Sangerforbund, August 28th to 31st, 1909, under the auspices of the Norwegian Singers of Seattle [and] Norway Day at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, August 30th, 1909, under the auspices of De Norske foreningers forbund
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
View this itemLittle Three Grand Cafe, May 1958
Seattle; Wash. Chinese restaurant 664 King Str. (Little Three Grand Cafe)
Identifier: spl_wl_res_00010
Date: 1958-05
View this itemInvitation from the New York State Committee to the Alaska-Pacific-Yukon Exposition to a reception in honor of Governor Charles E. Hughes of New York at the New York State Building on 2 August 1909
Printed invitation card with seal that is inscribed with the word "Excelsior." Card to be presented for admission to the reception to be held from 3:00 until 5:00.
Identifier: mohai_ayp_2006.3.47.4a
Date: 1909
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 itemInvitation from Rear Admiral H. Ijichi and the Imperial Japanese Training Squadron to event on board of H.I.J.M.S. "Aso" on 9 June 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
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