182 results for: Alaska
Pen and ink drawing, "In the Project Studio," by Hans Bok, 1939
Hans Bok (1914-1964) was born in Missouri and came to Seattle in 1938 where he was one of the youngest artists to work for the Federal Arts Project in this city. While at work, Bok often took out a pen and drew artists working in the project studios in the Alaska Building. This image features Fay Chong in the lower…
ID Number:2010.21.1
Date:1939
Gavel from the Hoo-Hoo House, a building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), ca. 1909-1959
The Hoo-Hoos were a fraternal organization of lumbermen. They had a house built on the grounds of the AYPE in 1909 and their mascot was a black cat. After the Exposition, the house was given over to the University of Washington where it was used as the Faculty Club until its replacement in 1959.
ID Number:2010.26.1
Date:Circa 1909-1959
Set of gold scales used by Clarence Kinsey during the 1898 Gold Rush at Bonanza Creek, Yukon Territory
These gold scales were originally owned by Clarence Kinsey, a local photographer along with his brother and partner, Clark, who were noted for their photographs of the early logging industry in the Pacific Northwest. Before settling in Washington, Kinsey used these scales during the gold rushes at Bonanza Creek in 1898, and Haggart Creek in 1911, both located in the…
ID Number:2010.57.1
Date:Circa 1898
Gold scales originally owned by Albert and Markus Mayer of the Mayer Bros., Klondike prospectors and jewelry store proprietors, 1897
The firm of Mayer Bros. was established in Seattle in 1897 under the name Joseph Mayer and Brothers. The company was founded by Joseph, Albert, and Markus Mayer, who emigrated from Germany. They were manufacturing jewelers, silversmiths, and jewelry wholesalers. In 1897, Albert and Markus left the company to join the Klondike gold rush where they established a retail jewelry…
ID Number:2011.7.1
Date:Circa 1897
Commemorative Seattle Totems hockey puck, 1972
Wesley "Wes" Uhlman was the mayor of Seattle from 1970-1978. He was presented with this hockey puck from when the Seattle Totems hosted the championship Soviet Union Red Army team on December 25, 1972. Sadly, the Totems lost 9-4 that night but went on to beat the Soviet team 8-4 in a rematch in 1974.The appropriation of Indigenous names for…
ID Number:2012.Uhlman.5
Date:1972
Seattle Totems hockey puck with signatures of the 1972-1973 team
Wesley "Wes" Uhlman was the mayor of Seattle from 1970-1978. He was presented with this hockey puck from the 1972-1973 Seattle Totems team. The appropriation of Indigenous names for professional sports teams has been popular since the 19th century, and the design of the Seattle Totems logo was based on the art from the tribes of Canada and Alaska. Visitors…
ID Number:2012.Uhlman.6
Date:1972
Japanese-themed souvenir tea set from the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) in Seattle, WA, 1909
This tea set was purchased at the Japanese Pavilion on the AYPE campus. Like other souvenirs of the fair, it did not reflect an authentic Japanese tea service but was instead created and marketed for Western stereotypes of Japan.
ID Number:2013.53.1
Date:1909
Painting by Lockwood Dennis, "Kingdome, Alaska Viaduct," 1991
Lockwood "Woody" Dennis (1937-2012) was born in Portland, Oregon, but lived in Port Townsend, Washington, for 37 years. He was inclined to paint both natural and industrial scenes from the Northwest, California, Colorado, Africa, and Japan, and often included images of vehicles from the 1930s and 1940s as their shapely design had inspired him as a child. In this work,…
ID Number:2013.56.10
Date:1991
Seattle Totems hockey puck, ca. 1960s
The Seattle Totems were a professional ice hockey franchise in Seattle, Washington, 1958-1975. The donor of this hockey puck attended all the games in the 1960s at the Civic Ice Arena when there weren't any protective Plexi panels around the rink. Sometimes the puck would fly into the stands and the donor was fortunate enough to catch one of them.…
ID Number:2015.44.1
Date:Circa 1960
Post Hotel sign, ca. 1930s
After the Great Fire of 1889 destroyed many of the wooden buildings in Seattle, the Post Hotel was constructed in brick in 1899-1900 on the corner of Post Avenue and Yesler Way. The hotel had small rooms and housed late gold rush seekers heading to the Klondike in Alaska, and accomodated "comfort ladies" as well.
ID Number:2015.66.1
Date:Circa 1930