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Title	Sign on Silver Dollar display bldg.
Identifier	spl_wl_exp_00379
Description	Sign on Million Silver Dollar Display building, Century 21 Exposition (Seattle World's Fair). "Arrangements for the unusual display were made by Northwest Historical Medals, Ltd., Walla Walla. The firm is the official numismatic department of the fair. There will be no charge for the exhibitThe $1,000,000 will weigh about 33 tons. The display will be in a building near the entrance to the National Guard ArmoryThe $1,000,000 will be poured into a mesh cylinder seven feet in diameter and about 35 feet high. Plate glass will be erected between the dollars and the publicFairgoers will be offered the opportunity of having photographs taken with the heap of dollars. They would purchase the photograph and after the fair a dollar from the display would be mailed to each customer as a souvenir to slip inside the frame." (Seattle Times, February 27, 1962, p. 1.) Sign reads "$1,000,000 Silver Dollar Display. Building by... Behlen Manufacturing Co. Columbus, Nebraska Erected by... Olympic Prefabricators No. 107th and Stone EM. 4-3420"
Subjects (LCSH)	Century 21 Exposition (1962 : Seattle, Wash.) Million Silver Dollar Display (Century 21 Exposition, 1962, Seattle, Wash.) Exhibitions--Washington (State)--Seattle Exhibition buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle Lenggenhager, Werner Behlen Manufacturing Company Olympic Prefabricators (Seattle, Wash.) Silver coins--Washington (State)--Seattle Dollar, American (Coin) Signs and signboards--Washington (State)--Seattle
Subject	Million Silver Dollar Display
Photographer	Lenggenhager, Werner
Date	1962-04-01
Period	Before the Fair
Notes	Title taken from handwritten caption on verso. Date stamped on verso.
Folder	Dollar Exhibit
Measurements	24.7 x 20 cm
Digitization Specifications	Master image scanned on Epson 10000 XL flatbed at 600 ppi, 24 bit color, saved as TIFF file. Photoshop used to reduce access image to 600 pixels on long edge; master image file size: 82,427,904 bytes.
File Format	image/jp2
Collection	Century 21 Digital Collection
Contributing Institution	The Seattle Public Library
Rights Management	For information about rights and reproduction, visit http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/rights
Type (DCMI)	image
Item Type	Photographs
Source	Original: 8 x10 b/w photographic print
Date created	2011-06-07