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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Supplication, ca. 1924
Frank Asakichi Kunishige was born in Japan on June 5, 1878. He came to the United States via San Francisco in 1895. After graduating from the Illinois College of Photography, he opened a small photography studio in San Francisco. Kunishige moved to Seattle in 1917. In the same year, he married Gin Kunishige and began working in the studio of Edward S. Curtis where he became acquainted with Ella McBride who he worked for in later years. Kunishige was well known for his use of Pictorialism, a popular painterly style of photography. He developed his photographs on "textura tissue," a paper of his own creation, which allowed him to produce almost dreamlike prints. His work was featured nationally and internationally in exhibitions and publications such as Photo-Era and Seattle's Town Crier. In 1924, Kunishige became one of the founding members of the Seattle Camera Club, a group of local photographers including Kyo Koike, Yukio Morinaga, Iwao Matsushita and Fred Y. Ogasawara who gathered to share techniques and ideas, as well as their deep love of the medium. Although the group was initially solely Japanese, they soon welcomed more members including Ella McBride, their first female member. When World War II struck and the country's Japanese internment policy was put in place, Kunishige and his wife were forced to leave Seattle for Idaho where they were interned at the Minidoka camp. After their release, Kunishige spent two years working at a photography studio in Twin Falls, Idaho but eventually returned to Seattle due to his poor health. Frank Kunishige passed away on April 9, 1960.
Identifier: spl_art_367924_38
Date: 1924
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Invitation from the Seattle Federation of Women's Clubs to a luncheon in honor of the officers and delegates of the National Council of Women at the New York State Building, July 14, 1909
Printed invitation card to the luncheon.
Identifier: mohai_ayp_2006.3.46.15
Date: 1909-07-14
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The Exposition Beautiful, 1909
Book of essays about the A.Y.P.E. with official photographs, portraits and ground plan. Titles of the essays include "The World-Wide Significance of the Alaska-Pacific-Yukon Exposition," "The Fair That Kept a Promise," "The United States Government Building at the A.-Y.-P. Exposition," "Architecture and the Grounds" and "A Trip Over the Grounds." 31 pages, 23 cm, illustrated.
Identifier: mohai_ayp_2006.3.10
Date: 1909
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Invitation from the President and the Officers of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition to the reception for French Ambassador Jusserand at the New York State building, June 14, 1909
Printed invitation card to be sent to invitees of the reception.
Identifier: mohai_ayp_2006.3.46.3
Date: 1909-06-14
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"Progress of the Fair," Washington Magazine, October 1906
A brief article containing snippets describing the progress of the exposition in several aspects. The snippets are entitled as follows: "Subscription Day," " Major T. S. Clarkson's Trip," "Designer of Grounds Arrives," "$100,00 for Livestock Show" and "Mr. Nadeau in Alaska." Washington Magazine 2.2 (October 1906): 173-74, illustrated.
Identifier: spl_ayp_470457_oct1906
Date: 1906-10
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