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GOLDEN POTLATCH (arched) / (etched picture of the "Potlatch bug", a native American totem character) / CARL SCHMITZ / HOGE BUILDING / SEATTLE.

ID#: WLL140
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Glass Category:Liquor advertising
Glass Type:Thin-walled shot
Label Type:Usual white-etched label
Dimensions:2-1/2" x 2"
Edmonson:Not listed
State:WA
City:Seattle
Notes:
Carl Schmitz Buffet listed from 1913.

"Potlatch" is a word describing a North Coast Native American ceremony involving a celebration and gift giving. Seattle held its first Golden Potlatch festival on July 17, 1911, on the anniversary of the 1897 arrival of the steamer Portland from Alaska loaded with gold from the Klondike River in Canada. Postcards of the time describe it as "the first treasure ship," bringing "the gift of gold by Alaska to the world through this city". Over the next five days, approximately 300,000 persons visited Seattle to attend parades, concerts, and demonstrations by "automobilists" and an aviator.

The Golden Potlatch festival was organized by a carnival association of civic clubs hoping to continue the visibility of Seattle after the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909. The Potlatch Bug (a "grotesque from a totem pole") was adopted as the festival emblem and appeared on all advertising material

(for more information, see the Online Encyclopaedia of Washington State history: http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=8213).


A postcard showing the Potlatch Bug
as Uncle Sam, ca. 1912


Company name timeline:
Carl Schmitz Buffet

Address timeline:
Hoge Bldg. Arcade

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