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Goose down lounging booties, 1967
Eddie Bauer advertised its Mt. Everest insulated slippers as "ideal for keeping feet warm in tent or cabin." Eddie Bauer supplied all of the down equipment for the 1963 American Mount Everest expeditions and used the name in its product line.
ID Number:1967.4134.1
Date:1967
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
First goose-down insulated jacket made by Eddie Bauer, 1936
During an excursion on the Olympic Peninsula, local outdoorsman and retailer Eddie Bauer had his wool garments become soaked with freezing rain. He started to experience serious signs of hypothermia. After his near-death experience, Bauer set out to make a better coat for cold weather activities, one that would be lighter and warmer and allow for good air circulation. He…
ID Number:1967.4134.8
Date:1936
World War I Navy Officer's black leather belt, ca. 1914
This belt belonged to Mortimer B. Carraher who was a United Stated Navy ensign and commanded a mine sweeper during the removal of mines from the North Sea Mine Barrage in 1919. During World War I, this mine barrage was laid east of the Orkney Islands to Norway with the purpose of stopping German U-boats from reaching the Atlantic Ocean.
ID Number:1967.4242.2
Date:Circa 1914
Plaid suit from the House of Paquin, 1939
This plaid suit belonged to Guendolen Carkeek Plestcheeff (1892-1994), who was born in Seattle but spent time in Europe as a young woman. She continued to make buying trips overseas to restock her wardrobe long after she moved back to Seattle in 1931. This suit was probably purchased on her last trip to Europe before the outbreak of World War…
ID Number:1968.4411.1C1425
Date:1939
Green satin pumps sold at I. Magnin department store, 1950s
These spiked heel women's shoes were owned by Mrs. Joshua Green Jr., a member of a prominent early Seattle family.
ID Number:1968.4557.22
Date:Circa 1950
Dark-blue calf leather pumps, ca. 1950s
These dark blue women's shoes were bought at I. Magnin department store in Seattle in the 1950s.
ID Number:1968.4557.24
Date:Circa 1950