File:Native Americans selling baskets outside Frederick & Nelson, Seattle, ca 1912 (MOHAI 3502).jpg

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A number of Native American families earned money by selling baskets to Seattle's tourists and residents. In this postcard, several women and a boy sit by their baskets on Second Avenue, outside the Frederick & Nelson department store. This style of twined basket is still made by the Makah people of Neah Bay and the Nootkan people of Vancouver Island.

Sign in image: Frederick & Nelson Inc. - Womens Costumes, Suits, Furs, Etc. - Complete [...] Furnishers. Caption on image: Indian Basket Sellers, Seattle. Caption on verso: From the writing room of Frederick & Nelson, Seattle. Postmarked April 8, 1912, from Seattle; one-cent stamp. Handwritten on verso: Isn't this a typical scene? Have been down taking lunch with Millie and have just put her on the car. Aren't you dying for school to start? I am not. Heaps [of Love?] Rowena. Addressed to Mrs. A.D. Foster in Quincy, Wash. Caption by MOHAI staff.

• Subjects (LCTGM): Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Seattle; Baskets--Washington (State)--Seattle; Department stores--Washington (State)--Seattle; Frederick & Nelson

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Quite likely this postcard is a pastiche rather then being based on an actual photograph. Compare (for example) File:Seattle - selling Indian baskets in front of F&N - 1912.jpg and the images linked from there.