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- Totem Pole in Pioneer Square, Seattle, Washington, circa 1905 - This memorial pole was erected in Seattle's Pioneer Square in 1899, near the end of the Klondike gold rush, when thousands of hopeful miners departed the city for Northwestern Canada and Alaska. Seattle businessmen had taken the pole from Tongass, a Tlingit village in southeastern Alaska, and were later fined for theft. Though controversial, it became a city landmark.
- circa 1900
- Collections - Artifact
Totem Pole in Pioneer Square, Seattle, Washington, circa 1905
This memorial pole was erected in Seattle's Pioneer Square in 1899, near the end of the Klondike gold rush, when thousands of hopeful miners departed the city for Northwestern Canada and Alaska. Seattle businessmen had taken the pole from Tongass, a Tlingit village in southeastern Alaska, and were later fined for theft. Though controversial, it became a city landmark.