<p>Caption on image: Third Avenue, looking North, Seattle, Washington.  Golden Potlatch, Seattle, July 17-22, 1911. c1911 Hopf Bros. Co.
</p><p>On verso of image: Pub. for Hopf Bros. Co. Seattle. By Edward H. Mitchell, S.F.
The word "Potlatch" is from the Chinook Jargon, the trade language of the North Pacific Coast Indians. It means a gift or to give. In a larger sense the Indians applied it to a great festival at which gifts were made.
Seattle's Golden Potlatch will be a great festival in celebration of the gift of gold by Alaska to the world through this City, the gateway of the Northern Empire. It will be a week of carnival and jollity. The opening date, July 17, is the anniversary of the arrival of the first treasure ship.
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Filed in: Seattle--Streets--Third Avenue<p class="mw-empty-elt"></p>
<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Street lights--Washington (State)--Seattle; Panoramic photographs</li>
<li>Subjects (LCSH): Third Avenue (Seattle, Wash.); Streets--Washington (State)--Seattle; Central business districts--Washington (State)--Seattle; Street-railroads--Washington (State)--Seattle; Buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle; Seattle (Wash.)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Queen Anne (Seattle, Wash.)</li></ul>
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1911<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1911-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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