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<p>The "Toys" sign at the right of the photograph is located on the Bon Marche's building. The People's Savings Bank Building is located on the left. Transcribed from postcard: "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 17th, is the anniversary of the arrival of the first treasure ship."
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July 1911<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1911-07-00T00:00:00Z/10</div>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16118coll3/id/1609">Record in source catalog</a></li>
<li>DPLA identifier: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dp.la/item/53e09bb91bc30ebc9092fd1a9ee0dbbf">53e09bb91bc30ebc9092fd1a9ee0dbbf</a></li>
<li>Seattle Public Library identifier: spl_pc_36013</li></ul></span>