File:Forestry Building at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909 (MOHAI 1729).jpg
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English: Forestry Building at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909 ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Photographer |
English: Frank Harwood |
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Title |
English: Forestry Building at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909 |
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English: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world's fair held in 1909 in Seattle to publicize the development of the Pacific Northwest. The fairgrounds were located on the campus of the University of Washington, where many new buildings were built to accommodate the fair. The Forestry Building was sponsored by the State of Washington and was intended to showcase the state's forest resources. Architects Charles Saunders and George Lawton created a building that echoed the French Renaissance style set by principal architect John Galen Howard but which also incorporated the log-cabin idiom of early pioneer buildings. Featuring enormous unprocessed logs felled in Chehalis (now Gray's Harbor) County, the Forestry Building's grand colonnade and soaring interior spaces evoked the majesty of Washington's seemingly limitless forests and, not coincidentally, implied the great potential wealth they contained. The building was located on the site of the present-day Husky Union Building, and after the fair served for a time as a forest and botanical museum. It also housed the Burke Museum, then known as the Washington State Museum. By 1931, however, insects and the elements had taken their toll and the building was demolished. Part of a duplicate image is visible on the right because this image is half of a stereograph. Stereographs used two identical images next to each other on a single mount. By using a special viewer to hold the images the correct distance from the user's eyes, the images appeared to merge into a three-dimensional effect.Embossed on mount: Harwood.
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Depicted place |
English: United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
University District (Seattle, Wash.) |
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Date |
1909 date QS:P571,+1909-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium |
English: 1 photographic print on stereo card: stereograph, b&w |
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Dimensions |
height: 4 in (10.1 cm); width: 7 in (17.7 cm) dimensions QS:P2048,4U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,7U218593 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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English: Museum of History and Industry |
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Credit Line InfoField | Frank M. Harwood Stereographs, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
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