File:Crowd greeting Santa Claus outside the Bon Marché at Second and Pike, Seattle, circa 1902 (MOHAI 8566).jpg

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English: Crowd greeting Santa Claus outside the Bon Marché at Second and Pike, Seattle, circa 1902   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
English: Curtis & Romans
Title
English: Crowd greeting Santa Claus outside the Bon Marché at Second and Pike, Seattle, circa 1902
Description
English:

The Bon Marché was founded in 1890 by German immigrant Edward Nordhoff and his wife Josephine." Originally located in Seattle's Belltown district at First Avenue and Cedar Street, in 1896 it moved to a more central location downtown at Second Avenue and Pike Street. photo of the exterior of the Bon Marché building shows a crowd awaiting the arrival of Santa Claus. Sometime after the Bon's downtown move it advertised itself as the 'The Home of Santa Claus ' Presents for Everyone' as one of a variety of marketing strategies.

Written on verso: Circa 1902-06.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Bon Marché (Department store); Santa Claus
Depicted place
English: United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Date circa 1902
date QS:P571,+1902-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard: b&w
Dimensions height: 7 in (17.7 cm); width: 9.5 in (24.1 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,7U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,9.5U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
8566
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
Permission
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Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
Credit Line
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MOHAI, Bon Marché Collection, 2009.20.141 """"""""""

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