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T-Shirt with cartoon, "Welcome to Washington, Californians Right Lane," 1989
This shirt is representative of a late-80s, early 90s backlash against rapid growth in Seattle and the influx of newcomers, many of whom were from California. Local columnist Emmett Watson was one of the champions of this backlash, writing about his fictional organization “Lesser Seattle” which opposed civic boosterism, urban renewal, and unbridled growth. The 1990 Almost Live! sketch “The…
ID Number:2022.Tshirt
Date:1989
Friends of the Monorail T-shirt, ca. 1997-2000
Interest in expanding Seattle’s 1962 monorail line throughout the city gained momentum with signature-gathering petitions in 1994. The “Friends of the Monorail” were the main organizers and instigators of the campaign. In 1997, in spite of almost total opposition by the political establishment, city voters approved Initiative 41 for monorail expansion. Three years later voters approved an additional measure for…
ID Number:2023.Monorail.1
Date:1997-2000
Leather license plate from a Seattle hack, 1911
This license plate, dated to 1911, is from a hack (or cab) driven by the donor's great uncle Sylvester Ambrose (Doc) Hildebrand that drove customers from the east end of Madison Street into downtown Seattle. Hildebrand would work all week then, for the weekends, he would row from the Madison neighborhood, across the west end of Lake Washington, to his…
ID Number:2024.26.1
Date:1911
Tricycle from the J.P. Patches television show, ca. 1960
Chris Wedes' playful clown character J.P. Patches, affectionately known as the "Mayor of the Dump," hosted one of America's longest-running local children's television programs. The show aired on KIRO-TV in Seattle from 1958-1981 and broadcast over 10,000 episodes in its 23-year run. J.P. Patches often rode this tricycle around the set, comically banging into props and tumbling to the ground.
ID Number:2024.38.1
Date:Circa 1950-1960
Bemis Bag Co. Two-in-One Envelope Bag, ca. 1920
The Bemis Bag Company was founded in St. Louis, Missouri in 1858. By the early 20th century, the company operated eight bag factories in various parts of the United States, including Seattle, making burlap and cotton bags for grain, flour, feed and many other products.This "Two-in-one Bag Envelope" is one of the many products made by Bemis. The company is…
ID Number:2024.42.1
Date:Circa 1920
Azimuth circle from the logging schooner Wawona, 1929
The three-masted schooner Wawona sailed from 1897 to 1947 as a lumber carrier and fishing vessel based in Puget Sound. An azimuth circle fits over a ship's compass and is used for celestial navigation. This device, made by Ritchie & Sons for the Sperry gyroscope, was installed in the Wawona in 1929 by J. E. Trafton and his sons, Elsworth…
ID Number:2025.21.1
Date:1929
Temperature gauge from the ferry Kalakala, ca. 1930s
The Kalakala, in operation on Puget Sound from 1935-1967, was designed and built to be fast, to look "futuristic", to showcase revolutionary construction technologies, and to express a buoyant confidence in Seattle's irrepressible progress even in the depths of the Great Depression. This gauge was most likely used to monitor the temperature of the engine.
ID Number:2026.13.2
Date:Circa 1930-1940