The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and Seattle: the beautiful Exposition city.

Seattle, WA: Robert A. Reid, Publisher, 488 Arcade, 1909. Oblong 4to. 12.5 x 9.5 in. [54 pp (unpaginated).], photo-illustrated title. With photographic illustrations throughout (1 large double-page panorama of Arctic Circle & Formal Garden), 1 large map at rear of the Exposition. Gray-illustrated softcovers, yapp fore-edges, panoramic mounted photo cover art of Exposition, decorative gilt & black lettering (slight shelfwear, very slight rubbing), still NF copy. First edition of this very scarce photographic souvenir chronicling the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The photos encompass the Manufactures Building, Forestry Building, many of the States Buildings, and courts. In addition, there are views of the Japan Exhibit, the Formosa Tea House (sponsored by the Japanese Imperial government to justify controlling present-day Taiwan), the Japanese Village, the Pay Streak attractions which included a roller-coaster like scenic railway, the Temple of Palmistry, the Oriental Village, the Igorrote Village, wherein Philippine natives were on display, as well as the decidedly racist “Dixieland” attraction putting a shiny gloss on the antebellum South, and “festivities and pastimes of the negro in the Sunny South.” No copies in Worldcat.