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Grandfather's or tall case clock, ca. 1880
This tall case clock was brought to Seattle by Otto Ranke, a German immigrant buckmason and plasterer, who built his home on the corner of Terry and Madison Avenues in 1891. Moritz Thomsen, Seattle builder and founder of Centennial Mill Company among other ventures, bought Ranke's house along with the clock in 1901.
ID Number:1970.4974.5
Date:Circa 1880
Salmon can making device, 1878
Before there was machinery to make fish cans, workers might use this hand tool. This particular device was found in a salmon cannery in Klawak, Alaska.
ID Number:1970.4988
Date:Circa 1878
Glass bottle "A.B. Stewart Druggist, Seattle W.T." ca. 1882
Alexander B. Stewart (1854-1929) was originally from Ontario, Canada, where he graduated in pharmacy from Victoria College in the early 1870s. He came to the US in 1874 and, after stints in Nevada and California during the Gold Rush boom, he arrived in Seattle in 1882 in what was still Washington Territory. He soon opened a retail drug business and…
ID Number:1971.5088.1
Date:Circa 1882
Pop bottle, "Seattle Soda Works," run by George T. Maginnis, ca. 1880-1904
Seattle Soda Works was owned by George T. Maginnis and, a listing in the 1888-1889 Seattle City Directory, shows the business was operating at the foot of Yesler Way. Maginnis also operated the Geo. T. Maginnis Bottling Works factory at 1028 1st Avenue and was the Seattle agent for the Tumwater-based Olympia Brewing Company.
ID Number:1971.5088.2
Date:Circa 1885
Hamilton Beach drink mixer from Weed's Pharmacy in Seattle, ca. 1940
Melvin Albert (Bert) Weed (1882-1964) began in the pharmacy business in 1898 as a clerk at the Bartell Drug Company. After college he partnered with Albert G. Keene and worked as a pharmacist at Lake Washington Pharmacy which became Weed's Pharmacy in 1910, operating in the same Central District location until 1958.
ID Number:1971.5098.3
Date:Circa 1940
Model, Boeing 2707 Supersonic Transport (SST) airplane, ca. 1965
The Boeing SST project was hampered by design and environmental concerns. Though the U.S. government eventually cut funding to the project and prototypes were never completed, contributing to massive Boeing layoffs, this project was the first of its kind in the United States and was part of a supersonic transport technology race against the Soviets during the Cold War years,…
ID Number:1971.5158.1
Date:Circa 1965
Model of the first Boeing 747 long-range transport jet airliner, ca. 1968
Boeing began building its first 747 in September 1967. Malcolm Stamper, General Manager of Boeing's 747 program put together a group of 50,000 engineers, administrators, secretaries and construction workers he called "The Incredibles." They were incredible for producing the world's largest civil airplane in only 16 months. The first 747 rolled out of Boeing's Everett plant on September 30, 1968.…
ID Number:1971.5158.3
Date:Circa 1968
Office desk from Northern Life Insurance Company in Seattle, ca. 1906
The Northern Life Insurance Company was founded in Seattle in 1906. The donor's father, D.D. Morgan, was one of the founders and this was his desk. It was purchased from the G.L. Holmes Furniture Company on Second Avenue in Seattle.
ID Number:1971.5183.1
Date:1900-1910
Glass beaded black velvet gown, 1930
This dress was owned by Mary Belle Myers (1874-1958) who was a prominent supporter of several charities including Children’s Hospital and Lighthouse for the Blind. Her family made its fortune in the salmon canning business. The larger size of this gown is rare since, typically, surviving examples of clothing from the past are smaller-sized, creating an inaccurate notion that most…
ID Number:1971.5218.3C1689
Date:1930
Pair of green leather portières from the home of Melvin Albert Weed, 1902
Melvin Albert (Bert) Weed (1882-1964) began in the pharmacy business in 1898 as a clerk at the Bartell Drug Company. After college he partnered with Albert G. Keene and worked as a pharmacist at Lake Washington Pharmacy which became Weed's Pharmacy in 1910, operating in the same Central District location until 1958. A portière is a hanging curtain placed over…
ID Number:1971.5220.2
Date:1902