Created on what is now the University of Washington campus, the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition celebrated the Klondike Gold Rush just 12 years earlier.
This exposition was Seattle's first international exposition, succeed by the 1962 Century 21 Exposition . The Pacific Northwest also hosted expositions in 1905 in Portland, 1974 in Spokane , and 1986 in Vancouver .
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Documentary clip: Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, Seattle's Forgotten World's Fair of 1909
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Documentary: Lake Union's World's Fair, from the Lake Union Virtual Museum
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Alaksya-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Indigenous Voices Reply, from the exhibit at the Burke Museum
Quick Info
opening date
01 June 1909
closing date
16 October 1909
commemoration
Klondike Gold Rush Celebration
site description
University of Washington campus
site size
101 hectares (250 acres)
participating countries
Canada, Japan, Sweden, United States
attendance
3.7 million
status
pre-BIE
History
