File:"Afro-Americans" float in Golden Potlatch parade, Seattle, July 1911 (MOHAI 5590).jpg

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English: "Afro-Americans" float in Golden Potlatch parade, Seattle, July 1911   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Nowell & Rognon:

Frank H. Nowell  (1864–1950)  wikidata:Q26202833
 
Frank H. Nowell
Alternative names
Frank Hamilton Nowell
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 19 February 1864 Edit this at Wikidata 19 October 1950 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Portsmouth
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creator QS:P170,Q26202833
Orville J. Rognon  (–1958)  wikidata:Q56324320
 
Description photographer
Date of birth/death 1958 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Placer County
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creator QS:P170,Q56324320
Title
English: "Afro-Americans" float in Golden Potlatch parade, Seattle, July 1911
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The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal, civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen, who used Native American imagery to promote tourism and the economic development of the city. In July 1911 the Tilikums ("Friends" in Chinook Jargon; Elttaes is Seattle spelled backward) organized the first Golden Potlatch celebration. The Golden Potlatch was a city-wide festival held in July organized by civic boosters hoping to capitalize on the success of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909. The event continued for each of the next three summers before being suspended during wartime, and then was started up again as the Potlatch Festival from 1934 to 1941.

The name “Golden Potlatch” appropriates a Chinook Jargon word describing a Native ceremony of celebration and gift giving. It also reflects the importance of the Klondike gold rush to Seattle’s growth. Many organizers and participants in the Golden Potlatch dressed in stereotyped imitations of traditional Native attire, as part of a created Potlatch myth. The appropriation of Native culture in order to market products or events was one common example of discrimination and marginalization faced by Native peoples in the United States.

In this photograph, a group of African American girls ride in a car decorated with ribbons and a banner reading "Afro-Americans" during the parade along First and Second Avenues in downtown Seattle.

The photographer identification is based on the resemblance of the numbering system and handwriting to attributed photos in the collection. Caption information source: HistoryLink.org and The Seattle Daily Times, July 20, 1911.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): African Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle; Automobiles--Washington (State)--Seattle; Children--Washington (State)--Seattle; Floats (Parades)--Washington (State)--Seattle; Parades & processions--Washington (State)--Seattle; Potlatch (Festival) (1911: Seattle, Wash.); Potlatch--Washington (State)--Seattle
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English: United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Date July 1911
date QS:P571,+1911-07-00T00:00:00Z/10
Medium
English: 1 photographic print: b&w
Dimensions height: 6.6 in (16.8 cm); width: 4.8 in (12.3 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,6.625U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,4.875U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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Seattle Potlatch Photograph Albums, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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