Picturing the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
Bromberg, Nicolette; Stamets, John
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Description for Picturing the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
Hardback. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition was a time of wonder in a 'citadel set in stars' - a grand world's fair that transformed the summer of 1909 in Seattle into a whirl of excitement and pleasure. The best record of the event was made by Frank H Nowell, official photographer for the exposition. This book illuminates both the man and the fair. Num Pages: 128 pages, 120 duotone illus. BIC Classification: AJB; AM; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6466 x 5499 x 18. Weight in Grams: 862.
For those who experienced it, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition was a time of wonder in a "citadel set in stars" -- a grand world's fair that transformed the summer of 1909 in Seattle into a whirl of excitement and pleasure. On what would become the University of Washington campus, for a brief moment a huge city emerged. At noon on June 1, amidst the blasting of horns and whistles, confetti filled the air and the gates were opened to a pent-up crowd of about 80,000 fairgoers. At the end of the evening on October 16, the fair was over and the ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295989297
SKU
V9780295989297
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About Bromberg, Nicolette; Stamets, John
Nicolette Bromberg is visual materials curator in Special Collections at the University of Washington Libraries in Seattle. John Stamets is a lecturer in photography in the Department of Architecture, University of Washington.
Reviews for Picturing the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
"Nicolette Bromberg's excellent, exhaustively researched book on the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909 and the fair's official photographer, Frank H. Nowell, will be much appreciated by both historians and students of photography."
Pacific Northwest Quarterly
"'Picturing the Alaska-Yukon-Exposition: The Photographs of Frank H. Nowell' opens another entryway into the 1909 fairgrounds, through the eyes of the A-Y-P's official photographer ... Read more
Pacific Northwest Quarterly
"'Picturing the Alaska-Yukon-Exposition: The Photographs of Frank H. Nowell' opens another entryway into the 1909 fairgrounds, through the eyes of the A-Y-P's official photographer ... Read more