Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Digital Collection
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.
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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
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Unknown man in Galesburg, Illinois, ca. 1880
Photograph taken by Thomas Harrison in Galesburg, Illinois.
Identifier: spl_lj_043
Date: 1880?
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Invitation from the Governor of the State of Washington and the officers of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition to the banquet in honor of William Howard Taft at the Washington State Building on 30 September 1909
Three part invitation including cover, page detailing a list of speakers and the menu to be prepared for the banquet.
Identifier: mohai_ayp_2006.3.46.5
Date: 1909
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Seattle opens doors of country to Japanese commissioners
An article detailing the Northwest stops on a 3-month tour of the United States by the Honorary Japanese Commercial Commission, chaired by Baron E. Shibusawa. The commission's itinerary included visits to the A.Y.P.E. on September 1 and on Japan Day, September 4. Pacific Northwest Commerce magazine (official publication of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce) 1.4 October 1909: 11-19, illustrated.
Identifier: spl_ayp_362611_oct1909_11
Date: 1909
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Exposition 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
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Invitation 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
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United States government at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Seattle, June 1st to October 16th
Pamphlet describing the U.S. Government Building at the A.Y.P.E. including statistics related to its cost and construction as well as interesting facts about the exhibits including "one or more dirigible balloons will be part of the War Department's exhibit." 1 sheet at 15 x 16 cm, folded to 15 x 8 cm, illustrated.
Identifier: spl_ayp_2526751
Date: 1909?
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Pennsylvania Railroad System's exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, Washington, June 1 to October 15, 1909
Small booklet describing the exhibit of the Pennsylvania Railroad System which contains photographs of its construction of the New York Tunnels and Passenger Station. Also includes illustrated renderings of trains and tunnels. Folded map of Pennsylvania Railroad System inserted. 18 pages, 17 cm, illustrated.
Identifier: spl_ayp_2526788
Date: 1909
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Invitation from the City of Seattle by its mayor and council to visit the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition held in the city of Seattle between 1 June 1909 until 16 October 1909
Printed invitation to be sent to invitees and signed by the Mayor and President of the Council. With colored A.Y.P.E. seal. “The City of Seattle, by its Mayor and Council, extends to [space for invitee name] a cordial invitation to visit the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition to be held in this City from June the first to October sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and nine. [signed] President of the Council, Mayor.”
Identifier: mohai_ayp_2006.3.46.2
Date: 1909
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Invitation 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
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