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by Dave Martucci, 7 July 2010
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The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was held in 1909 in Seattle,
Washington, USA.
Two flags were apparently used, the red-white-blue one
being the official flag and the gold-blue one the official burgee. It appears
the red-white-blue flag was hoisted throughout the expo grounds and the burgee
was hoisted on ships and other vehicles traveling to and from the expo and
inside the expo on its own ways.
Dave Martucci, 7 July 2010
I found this slideshow which features on silde # 57 a set of flags displayed
at the Exposition's Main Gate:
http://www.historylink.org/db_images/Seattle_AYP_Turnstiles_1909.jpg. The
image credits read: "Turnstiles at Main Gate, A-Y-P Exposition, Seattle, 1909,
photo by Frank Nowell, Courtesy UW Special Collections (Neg. No. PH Coll.
727,19, Image No. AYP190)
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?displaypage=slideshow.cfm&fileId=7082&frame=57
Esteban Rivera, 7 July 2010
This was indeed a World Expo sanctioned by the BIE retroactively, as seen in
this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_expositions. It was originally
planned for 1907, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Klondike Gold Rush, but
the organizers found out about the Jamestown Exposition (1907) being held that
year, and rescheduled.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown_Exposition
The Logo can be seen
here:
http://home.comcast.net/~dkerlee/logo1.jpg (From a Postcard by the Yukon
Postcard Company).
Other images of the logo are here:
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located by Dave Martucci, 7 July 2010
The burgee was a yellow flag with the AYP Signet in blue.
Dave Martucci, 7 July 2010
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located by Dave Martucci, 7 July 2010
The emblem is round like a seal and it features three women representing
Alaska, the Yukon, and Asia dressed in appropriate clothing and each appearing
in front of a typical scene; Asia and Yukon have appropriate trees and Alaska
has a mountain behind which is a golden sunrise. Each holds an item, a ship,
locomotive, and a lump of gold, respectively.
Dave Martucci, 7 July 2010
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located by Dave Martucci, 7 July 2010
Also I found a photo of a souvenir felt pennant showing a yellow
hoist with the AYP Signet in blue (on its side however) and a blue fly with the
word "SEATTLE" in yellow.
Dave Martucci, 7 July 2010