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Eddie Bauer brand insulated mittens, ca. 1963
Seattle outdoorsman and entrepreneur Eddie Bauer helped bring high-quality outdoor gear to a greater population. His efforts dismissed the notion that adventure-type recreation was only for backwoods eccentrics or world-class athletes. Eddie Bauer based the design of this type of mitten on ones custom made for Jim Whittaker’s Mt. Everest expedition in 1963. In that historic expedition, the local climber…
ID Number:1967.4134.2
Date:Circa 1963
Eddie Bauer goose-down insulated jacket and pants, 1940s-1960s
Seattle outdoorsman and entrepreneur Eddie Bauer helped bring high-quality outdoor gear to a greater population. His company was established in 1920, and in 1940 Bauer patented the first quilted down jacket. His efforts dismissed the notion that adventure-type recreation was only for backwoods eccentrics or world-class athletes.
ID Number:1967.4134.3
Date:Circa 1940-1960
Mt. Everest Parka with wolverine fur muff and pants, 1967
Seattle outdoorsman and entrepreneur Eddie Bauer helped bring high-quality outdoor gear to a greater population. His company was established in 1920, and in 1940 Bauer patented the first quilted down jacket. Bauer supplied all of the down equipment for the 1963 American Mount Everest expeditions and used the name in its product line. In that historic expedition, the local climber…
ID Number:1967.4134.6C1288
Date:1967
Man's goose down parka from Eddie Bauer, 1953
In 1953, a group of mountain climbers ascended Mt Godwin Austen (aka K2), the highest peak in Asia's Karakoram Range. The group spent over a month at 20,000 feet at temps as low as negative 70. All wore red windproof and water repellant parkas designed by Eddie Bauer for the ascent. The so-called "K2 Parka" later became a bestseller for…
ID Number:1967.4134.7C1289
Date:1953
Wooden egg carton from Bothell dairy, ca. 1937
This wooden “Star Egg Carrier” was patented in 1908 and made in New York. It belonged to a Seattle man who purchased a dairy in Bothell in 1937 and would use this when making egg deliveries.
ID Number:1967.4139.6
Date:Circa 1937
Blacksmithing anvil, ca. 1900
This anvil belonged to O. Fred Felton (1876-1966), born in Kentucky and moved to Seattle in 1923. He worked for the Great Northern Railroad and may have used this anvil for blacksmithing.
ID Number:1967.4146.2
Date:Circa 1900
Beauty parlor spiral waving machine, ca. 1930s
Ruth Haydeen, a beauty operator who owned a shop in the south end of Seattle in the 1950s, discovered this wave machine in the facility when she bought it. This particular machine was used in the 1920s and 1930s, often taking all day to set a client's hair. With all the various cords and metal clamps, there was always the…
ID Number:1967.4218
Date:Circa 1930
Sewing frame for binding newspapers, ca. 1880
This sewing frame was originally used in Anthony's Bookbindery in Seattle before the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. The book attached, "The Musical Quarterly," a 1946 periodical, demonstrates how the frame worked.
ID Number:1967.4276
Date:Circa 1880
Set of four liquor bottles from the Our House restaurant and hotel in Seattle, ca. 1898-1958
Our House restaurant and hotel was owned and operated by William Grose (ca. 1835-1898), a Black sailor and prospector who arrived in Seattle in 1861. He opened Our House in 1876 on Yesler Way but the building burned down in the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. One or two of these bottles may have been sold by Grose, but most…
ID Number:1967.4277.2
Date:Circa 1898-1958
Air blower for a forge, ca. 1890
Norwegian immigrant Lars O. Brekke used this forge air blower in his Seattle home in the 1890s and in his blacksmith shop which he opened in Ballard in 1900. He worked as a shipsmith for machine work shops on the Seattle waterfront and as a railroad smith for the Columbia and Puget Sound Railway. Lars' son and grandson took over…
ID Number:1968.4350
Date:Circa 1890