Picturing the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: The Photographs of Frank H. Nowell

by Nicolette Bromberg and John Stamets

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295989297
• ISBN13: 9780295989297
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 10.7"