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Promotional software package containing a CD-ROM for "Piper: A VideoActive Adventure for Children of All Ages," by Splash Studios Inc., Redmond, Washington, 1996
This software package is part of a collection donated by Frank Catalano who was one of the first local broadcast journalists to cover the personal computer revolution in the 1980s. At that time, he created and hosted the weekly Northwest Computing show for KING-AM and, in the 1990s, tracked the tech industry with a long-running "Byte Me" column that first…
ID Number:2020.4.9
Date:1996
Prototype of a Multi-Wavelength Integrating Nephelometer, 1971, US Patent 3,563,661
This integrating nephelometer is part of a collection of prototypes of devices that were patented by the University of Washington from the 1960s into the 1980s that relate to climate and atmospheric monitoring and measurement. This prototype, co-invented by Professor Robert Charlson (1936-2021), was used in a 1969 experiment at CalTech that was referred to by the participants as "The…
ID Number:2020.11.2
Date:1971
Operating nephelometer used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) for work on Arctic Haze studies, 1970s
This device was one of the first operational nephelometers designed by Dr. Robert Charlson (1936-2021) at the University of Washington and used by NOAA for work on Arctic Haze studies in the 1970s. The nephelometer measured the spatial distribution of smog and haze from human activity and would be attached to an airplane to capture data in flight. Robert Charlson…
ID Number:2020.22.1
Date:Circa 1970
Long light blue dress, ca. 1960s-1970s
Stanley A. Hostek (1918-2014) was a prominent and influential tailor in Seattle. In addition to owning his own custom tailoring business, he taught tailoring at Edison Technical School (now Seattle Community College) and authored a series of instructional tailoring books in the 1970s. He made this dress for his wife Dorothy Hostek.
ID Number:2020.24.7
Date:Circa 1960-1970
Tailor's scissors used by Stanley Hostek, ca. 1950s-1990s
Stanley A. Hostek (1918-2014) was a prominent and influential tailor in Seattle. In addition to owning his own custom tailoring business, he taught tailoring at Edison Technical School (now Seattle Community College) and authored a series of instructional tailoring books in the 1970s.
ID Number:2020.24.10
Date:Circa 1950-1990
Square grand Hallett & Allen piano, ca. 1847-1850
This piano was owned by Antoinette Josephine Baker, an original Mercer Girl who arrived in Seattle in 1864 at the age of 26 to teach at the newly established Territorial University. The Mercer Girls was the name given to the group of women recruited by Asa Mercer to journey to Seattle where there were a plethora of men but very…
ID Number:2020.37.1
Date:Circa 1847-1850
Pin, "It's Great to be a Husky in the Rose Bowl," ca. 1970s-1980s
From 1924 to 2019, the University of Washington Huskies football team played at the Rose Bowl fifteen times, winning seven of those games.
ID Number:2021.20.RefUWpin
Date:Circa 1970-1980
University of Washington basketball, 1896
The University of Washington had their first season of men's basketball in 1896 which consisted of just two games. The UW lost to the Seattle Athletic Club 2-3 in overtime, but beat the Seattle Y.M.C.A. (score not recorded). Basketball was invented in 1891, and these early games did not have high scoring results. The ball was thrown into a fruit…
ID Number:2021.65.1
Date:1896
Watercolor painting by Olive Malstrom Carl, ca. 1940-1960
The artist of this painting is Olive Malstrom Carl (1903-1988) who was born and raised in Tacoma. In 1916, she moved to Seattle where she attended the Seattle Schoool of Art and studied at the Seattle Art Museum. She lived with her family in the Queen Anne neighborhood and, in 1935, she opened the Olive Carl School of Art which…
ID Number:2022.23.1
Date:Circa 1940-1960
Blanchet High School football jersey #96, 1995
Casey McNerthney was issued this football jersey as a freshman at Bishop Blanchet High School in 1995. The freshmen jerseys that year had been varsity jerseys from the previous year, so they felt imbued with a sense of importance for the new players. It was also the last year that Blanchet put “Braves” on the football jerseys. In the early…
ID Number:2022.28.1
Date:Circa 1995