| The Official Emblem or Seal of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. |
Adelaide Hanscom (Leeson), 1875-1932, born in Empire City Oregon, was still a child when her family moved to Berkeley, California where she eventually attended the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and studied art and photography. In 1902 she entered a partnership with Blanche Cummings and they opened their own Photographic Studio. When the studio was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, she moved to Seattle, Washington. Hanscom's work in pictorials was first published in Camera Craft, the California Camera Club journal. She is probably best known for her portrait illustrations published in Edward Fitzgerald’s 1905 translation of the "Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam" a book of Persian poetry.
Her most published work was the “Official Emblem” or “Seal” of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition the 1909 Worlds Fair held on the campus of the State University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. The Seal appeared on or in millions of post cards, publications and souvenirs of the 1908-9 period..
The theme of the Fair was “The Gateway to the Orient” Promotion of trade among the Pacific Rim Nations was the goal. Consistent with the defined goal, the circular seal shows three background scenes with three women holding the keys to wealth, an Ocean Steamer, Gold and a Railway Locomotive.
Hanscom, unmarried at the time, entered an art competition for an Emblem to represent the nature of the fair. She won and received $500 for her work which was selected from a field of 150 entries. The work was not Copyrighted so hundreds of publishers and manufacturers could use the Seal on their works.
Now, 100 years later, collectors are still looking far and wide and paying premium prices for the artifacts bearing that Emblem. Many such examples are shown on this site.
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| Published by the Yukon Post Card Co. Seattle, Wash. |
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| Published by Edw. H. Mitchell, San Francisco, Calif. |
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| Published by The American Post Card Co., Seattle, Wash. |
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Below is a photograph of a 17" x 17" hardwood inlay plaque, crafted by an employee of the Consolidated Pipe and Tank Co.. Later to be known as the Federal Pipe & Tank Co. (FP&T) 16815 Marginal Way S. Seattle. which closed it's operations in the 1950's. The plaque was displayed in the AYPE Forestry Building then in the Corporate Offices of FP&T until it closed. It is now held by a private collector.
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This Coin from the Emile A. Tarkow Collection was purchased by a private collector in 2006 from Ira & Larry Goldberg Auctioneers in Beverly Hills, Ca. Along the AYPE Pay Streak you could have coins of your choice Stamped with the Hanscom Seal. This is a 1909 United States Barber Half Dollar. Only two additional copies of considerable less quality are known. for scans contact the webmaster@aype.net
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The A.Y.P.E. 9-5/8 inch, tin plate is known as Tin Vienna or Vienna Art Plate. Hazelcorn believes the plates were manufactured by the Meek Co. in Ohio then shipped to Bachrach & Co. in San Francisco, Calif. for the lithography. The Hazelcorn catalog states that “We have seen less than five of these plates in our years of collecting” and it is “the most unusual of all Art Plates. When selling a duplicate, Hazelcorn advertised the plate as one of the RAREST of the RARE, currently fewer than 10 are known to exist. None are know without faults. This picture has been touched up to show the potential.
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