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Large framed colored photograph looking south at downtown Seattle from Queen Anne Hill, 1940s
This oversized and colorized photograph, dating to the early 1940s, was donated by four brothers who owned the Leavitt Brothers women's clothing store. According to the Seattle City Directory, two of the Leavitt brothers were running an investment and real estate business in 1939, then apparently switched to women's clothing when the other two brothers joined the family enterprise. It…
ID Number:1969.4594.9
Date:Circa 1940
Beautician's chair, ca. 1932-1935
This chair is from the Owl Beauty Shop in Seattle, owned and operated by Wilma E. Buell during the 1930s.
ID Number:1969.4679.3
Date:Circa 1930
Powder flask, ca. 1850
This powder flask belonged to Angus Mackintosh, born in Ontario, Canada in 1839, fought with the Union Army in the Civil War, and came to Seattle in 1876. He worked in real estate and had a mill on the waterfront that was destroyed in the Seattle Fire of 1889. He then went on to found a merchants bank, lumber company…
ID Number:1969.4687.1
Date:Circa 1850
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