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White kid leather oxford heels, 1915
This pair of women's 1915 white kid leather bench-made shoes were purchased from Baxter's shoe store, a local Seattle store.
ID Number:1971.5167.2
Date:Circa 1915
Glass beaded black velvet gown, 1930
This dress was owned by Mary Belle Myers (1874-1958) who was a prominent supporter of several charities including Children’s Hospital and Lighthouse for the Blind. Her family made its fortune in the salmon canning business. The larger size of this gown is rare since, typically, surviving examples of clothing from the past are smaller-sized, creating an inaccurate notion that most…
ID Number:1971.5218.3C1689
Date:1930
Woman's black lace evening gown, over pink-orange taffeta, 1957
This strapless evening gown is an Edythe Washington creation and was worn by a socially prominent Seattle-born woman.
ID Number:1971.5254.1C1699
Date:1957
Green skirt suit with gold stripes, ca. 1950
This suit belonged to University of Washington Professor Blanche Payne (1897-1972). Payne was born in 1897 in Thayer, Kansas, and taught costume and design at the UW starting in 1927. She travelled through Central Europe and the Balkans surveying folk costume in the former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Albania, and the former Yugoslavia. She collected original costumes, textiles,…
ID Number:1971.5263.442C1709
Date:Circa 1950
Black and yellow pumps worn by Julie Andrews in the movie “Star!” 1968
Julie Andrews wore these shoes in the 1968 movie "Star!" --a musical biography of actress Gertrude Lawrence. They were donated to MOHAI by Seattle fashion retailer John Doyle Bishop. Bishop was friends with New York designer Donald Brooks who created the costumes for the film.
ID Number:1971.5280.1C
Date:Circa 1968
Hiking boots, ca. 1920
This pair of women's 1920's hiking boots were worn by the donor while going to Broadway High School 1921-1925. They were also worn while picking mushrooms in Green River Gorge and at Deep Lake near Enumclaw. The manufacturer was Chippewa Shoe Mfg. Co. of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.
ID Number:1972.5373.3
Date:Circa 1920
White leather high button shoes, ca. 1917
Mrs. Edmund Bowden purchased these shoes at early Seattle shoe store Turrell's around 1917.
ID Number:1972.5374.15
Date:Circa 1917
Brown velvet and tan straw hat, 1889
This hat belonged to Mrs. Edwin Bowden, daughter of William Henry Burt. The Burt family arrived in Walla Walla, Washington, from San Francisco in 1862. Mrs. Bowden moved to Seattle when she married in 1882 and died in 1952.
ID Number:1972.5374.55M623
Date:1889
Evening bonnet with parrot decoration, 1888
The hat belonged to Mrs. Edwin Bowden, who came to Seattle in 1882. In anticipation of an upcoming performance by soprano Emma Abbott at the Frye Opera House, Bowden ordered this fashionable hat from Tirney & Coombs in New York. From 1884 to 1889, the Frye Opera House served as Seattle’s premier cultural attraction for an expanding population. The hat…
ID Number:1972.5374.56M624
Date:1888
Black cloth embroidered slippers, ca. 1820-1870
This pair of men's 19th century black cloth slippers feature multi-colored hand-embroidered flowers. They were worn by a member of the family of Elizabeth Long Curtis, born 1892 in Seattle.
ID Number:1972.5406.8
Date:Circa 1820-1870