Shanghai Daily news

A 100-year-old silk scarf, bearing a picture of the 1909 Seattle World's Fair, has been donated to World Expo 2010 Shanghai. It's on display at the new Expo Exhibition Center on Huaihai Road M.

The scarf was a souvenir for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, known as a World's Fair.

Seattle was the launching pad for the great Gold Rush exploration of the north and Canada's gold-rich Yukon territory.

It was donated by Qiao Wen'an, a Chinese painter living in the United States. He bought it at an antique show in 2007, along with a promotional brochure for the Hong Kong Hall from the 1964 World's Fair in New York City.

The scarf depicts a scene of the national flags of all the fair's 51 participants, including Chinese government of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).