X101 - A.Y.P.E. Grounds from Universety

Image X101 - A.Y.P.E. Grounds from Universety
Image X101 - A.Y.P.E. Grounds from Universety

This is a photo of the 1909 World's Fair held in Seattle, the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition. It shows the grounds of the exposition from the University of Washington (the university took over the exposition site afterward) and appears to have been taken before the fair opened. If so, it was probably taken by Frank Nowell, the official photographer of the fair. Apparently Otto printed it on contract for the American Post Card Co.

Note the way that "University" is spelled. Otto was writing captions backwards on the glass negatives and sometimes misspelled words.

There is one other image numbered 101 (101 - Mt. Rainier), with two versions. Reuse of image numbers and different image series make it difficult to know how many images Otto published.