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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
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
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
Wooden trunk belonging to Henry Yesler, ca. 1855
Henry Yesler (1810-1892) made this trunk and brought it with him on his first trip west to Seattle, arriving in 1852. He soon built the first steam-powered sawmill on Puget Sound, helping to turn a small collection of houses into a thriving town. He also helped establish the Seattle Water Company and was a partner in the gaslight business that…
ID Number:1949.49.1
Date:Circa 1855
Three leaded, stained glass windows from first Milwaukee train to Seattle, ca. 1911
The Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway (CM&SP) extended service to the Tacoma/Seattle area starting in 1911, providing a faster form of transportation from the Midwest to the Puget Sound.
ID Number:1951.427.11
Date:Circa 1911
Puget Sound clam basket
The Coast Salish people of the Pacific Northwest designed baskets like this for gathering clams. When a clam is put into the basket, the basket structure holds the clam, but the open structure allows water and sand to fall out. This particular basket has been damaged over time and is not fully intact.
ID Number:1952.237.M.1
Date:19th Century
Portrait of John Wesley Maple, 1862
John Wesley Maple was the son of Jacob Maple, an early white settler, who came to the Puget Sound in 1851 a few months before the Denny party arrived on Alki. The Maple family settled along the Duwamish River on land that eventually became the site of present day Boeing Field.
ID Number:1952.327.1
Date:1862
Tin candle mold used by early Seattle settlers, ca. 1850
This twelve-candle mold is one of the many items that were brought with the early European settlers when they journeyed to the Puget Sound region.
ID Number:1952.986.9
Date:Circa 1850
Brass hand lantern that belonged to Sophie Frye Bass, ca. 1867
This hand lantern belonged to Sophie Frye Bass, an early white settler in Puget Sound.
ID Number:1952.986.27
Date:Circa 1867
Oil landscape painting featuring a Foss tug chugging across Commencement Bay in Tacoma, Washington, ca. 1930-1940
The tug Justine Foss, named for youngest daughter of Wedell and Edith Foss, leaves Tacoma Harbor. An industrialized shoreline including Hooker Chemicals, the St. Regis pulp mill, St. Paul lumber mill and Dickman Lumber, sprawls beneath the pristine backdrop of Mount Rainier. To the left is a big log dump where enormous “cigar” log rafts arrived from the Olympic Peninsula.…
ID Number:1953.299.a
Date:Circa 1930-1940