183 results for: European American Settlement
China teapot belonging to Captain Isaiah Folger, ca. 1805
Captai Isaiah Folger helmed the schooner Exact which delivered the Denny party, early Seattle settlers, to Alki Point on November 13, 1851. The Exact was docked in Portland before embarking on the nine days' voyage up the coast to Puget Sound.
ID Number:1941.169.b
Date:Circa 1805
Chest of drawers made by Henry Van Asselt, ca. 1872
Henry Van Asselt settled in the Seattle area in 1851 intending to make his living through agriculture. He later opened up a cabinet shop and his furniture was under demand by Seattle pioneers. Van Asselt made this chest of drawers out of fiddleback curly maple, a local wood that, when seasoned, becomes almost as hard as iron and at all…
ID Number:1945.1683.1
Date:Circa 1872
Handmade storage box, ca. 1880
This handmade maple wood box was used to keep secret papers by early Seattle resident John Hollister in the 1880s.
ID Number:1946.5
Date:Circa 1880
Side chair, 1830-1840
This chair belonged to the Mercer family. It traveled with them from Cadiz, Ohio, to Princeton, Illinois, in 1834, then across the plains to Seattle in 1852.
ID Number:1946.407.a
Date:1830-1840
Portrait of Thomas Mercer by Edwin Isaac Ames, ca. 1870-1900
Thomas Mercer (1813-1898) was born in Ohio and came to Seattle in 1852 with Aaron Mercer, his father, Dexter Horton, David Bagley, and William H. Showdy. His first wife died in 1853 and he remarried in 1859. He owned a dairy farm, was a probate judge for ten years, and was one of the first county commissioners. Artist Edwin Isaac…
ID Number:1946.407.b
Date:Circa 1870-1900
Carved walking stick that belonged to Arthur Denny, ca. 1880
In 1851, Arthur Denny, at the age of 29, led a contingent of his family west from Illinois to the Pacific Northwest, where he helped found the city of Seattle. He served as Seattle's first postmaster, was a delegate to the Washington Territorial Legislature, was one of King County's first commissioners, and he was instrumental in founding the University of…
ID Number:1946.508.1
Date:Circa 1880
Slant front desk section, 1850-1900
This section of a desk originally belonged to early Seattle settler Henry Yesler and it was received second hand by Mr. Henry Perry (H.P.) Grant sometime around 1900. Just prior to 1900, Grant opened a bicycle shop, Gifford and Grant, which, in 1904, morphed into the first gasoline powered automobile dealership in Seattle, "The Seattle Auto Co.," once located at…
ID Number:1946.556.1B
Date:1850-1900
Wooden chest, 1853
This chest was brought across the country by pack train in 1853 by Washington Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens. Stevens traveled to Puget Sound from the Midwest to conduct surveys of the newly established territory.
ID Number:1948.22.3
Date:Circa 1850
Wood leveling plane made by Arthur Denny, 1800s
Arthur Denny, early white Seattle settler, made this wood plane from applewood in his orchard.
ID Number:1948.93
Date:Circa 1840-1880
Oil portrait of Arthur Armstrong Denny by Baron Holmfeld, 1896
In 1851, Arthur Denny, at the age of 29, led a contingent of his family west from Illinois to the Pacific Northwest, where he helped found the city of Seattle. He served as Seattle's first postmaster, was a delegate to the Washington Territorial Legislature, was one of King County's first commissioners, and he was instrumental in founding the University of…
ID Number:1948.421
Date:1896