1931 Letter - Canoe Races

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Island County Historical Society

Name/Title

1931 Letter - Canoe Races

Entry/Object ID

2017.080.002

Scope and Content

The excerpt from a 1931 letter describing a sailing trip up through Puget Sound to Coupeville for the Water Festival Races. The letter discusses the Indigenous Canoe Races at Coupeville in 1931. It states, "Finally arrived at Coupeville, we went ashore and bought some provisions and looked the place over. Squalid little fishing village, it was all dressed up for the carnival, and the usual barkers, side shows, shows, tug-o-war, etc." The letter goes on to describe the canoes. It is four pages long.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Letter

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Correspondence

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1931