94 results for: Furniture
Desk once belonging to Eliza Ferry Leary, 1870-1890
Eliza Ferry Leary was the daughter of the first Governor of Washington, Elisha P. Ferry. She married John Leary, a prominent and successful early builder of Seattle, as well as the city's first Mayor. Eliza was President of the Rainier Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and she was acquainted with many famous leaders of the West…
ID Number:1957.1313.1
Date:1870-1890
Soda fountain chair from Seattle's main Post Office once located at 3rd and Union, ca. 1892-1910
Seattle's first post office was located in early settler Arthur Denny's cabin home with Denny as the first official Postmaster. Move forward fifty years to 1890, and the post office, having moved to various places, was then located in a building on Columbia Street that was constructed after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. The first permanent home for the…
ID Number:1958.1449.7
Date:1892-1910
Hand-made wooden tool chest, ca. 1880
This tool chest was most likely made by Seattle wheelwright and carpenter, George M. Abbey, who came to Seattle in the 1880s from Massachusetts.
ID Number:1958.1496.1
Date:Circa 1880
Upholstered side chair, 1880-1900
Frances Mercer and J.W. McCallister, members of early white settler families in Seattle, brought this side chair, part of a parlor set, around Cape Horn, South America.
ID Number:1959.1788.5
Date:1880-1900
Gaming table, 1893
This gaming table was made in 1893 by Otto Roseleaf, a Seattle building contractor at the turn of the 20th century. It consists of 8,500 pieces of various natural woods from all parts of the world. The top of the table is elaborately inlaid, made up of a central checker or chess board, surrounded by three concentric rectangular bands. The…
ID Number:1960.1947.1
Date:1893
Reversible bench used on a sailing ship, 1860-1890
Although it is unknown which ship this bench belonged to, the furniture piece has a noteworthy and unusual component. The bench has a swinging and alternating back which pivots on the two end seat rails. The back reversed when the ship changed tack and heeled the opposite way. Ben Wilcox, a member of the US Revenue Cutter Service since 1911…
ID Number:1960.2005.1
Date:1860-1890
Bedstead brought to Seattle by Captain Renton ca. 1850s
Captain William Renton and his family sailed from the East Coast, around Cape Horn, and up to San Francisco in 1850. The family then moved to the Puget Sound where he owned a sawmill until 1863, when he relocated to Blakely harbor on Bainbridge Island and established the Port Blakely Mill Company. He was a major investor in the coal…
ID Number:1960.2014.4
Date:Circa 1850
Child's rocking chair, 1880
This rocking chair was made in 1880 by Michael Wunder for his daughter Miss Rosa Wunder. They lived in Seattle.
ID Number:1961.2228.9
Date:1880
Dental cabinet, ca. 1910
This cabinet was in Dr. Ben J. West's dental office. He graduated from dentistry school in 1902, and practiced in Puyallup and Seattle until the 1960s.
ID Number:1963.3033.30
Date:Circa 1910
Dentist's chair, ca. 1910
This chair was in Dr. Ben J. West's dental office. He graduated from dentistry school in 1902, and practiced in Puyallup and Seattle until the 1960s.
ID Number:1963.3033.35
Date:Circa 1910