Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition

Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
Author: Alan J. Stein
Publisher: Historylink
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This richly illustrated and well-researched volume recounts in detail the history of the fair that brought Seattle and Washington into the national spotlight. The A-Y-P Exposition, held in Seattle in 1909 on the future site of the University of Washington, welcomed 3.7 million visitors and was the first world's fair to make a profit.