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Art Nouveau vase, ca. 1900
This vase was donated to the museum by Guendolen Carkeek Plestcheeff (1892-1994). Plestcheeff was born in Seattle in 1892 at the First Hill mansion home of her parents, British-born Seattle pioneers Morgan and Emily Carkeek. Guendolen was sent to Europe for schooling at age 13 and spent much of the adult life traveling between Seattle and Europe. Following in the…
ID Number:1952.529.3
Date:Circa 1900
Tin candle mold used by early Seattle settlers, ca. 1850
This twelve-candle mold is one of the many items that were brought with the early European settlers when they journeyed to the Puget Sound region.
ID Number:1952.986.9
Date:Circa 1850
Oil portrait of Ezra Meeker by Harriet Foster Beecher, 1914
Portrait of Ezra Meeker (1830-1928) in his old age. Meeker had been an early white settler of the area who traveled from Iowa and farmed hops in Puyallup. He later advocated for the preservation of the Oregon Trail, which he and his family had used to travel west, and is credited with spearheading its preservation. The artist, Harriet Foster Beecher…
ID Number:1953.303.14
Date:1914
Claire Hammons miniature house, 12th scale model, 1945-1955
This miniature mansion was donated to MOHAI by Claire Bagley Hammons in 1955. Mrs. Hammons and her husband, Frederick Dent Hammons, had the house model designed by Seattle architect Joseph S. Cote (designer of the Green Lake Carnegie Library) and then spent more than a decade working on the detailed furnishings. Hand-made carpets, miniature paintings, clocks made from vintage watches,…
ID Number:1955.974.1.1
Date:1945-1955
Painted portrait of Phoebe Anne Stowell Webster by unknown artist, ca. 1860-1880
Phoebe Ann Stowell married John Webster in New York in the 1850s, but he soon travelled to the West Coast, with Phoebe and family joining him in Port Madison, Washington, in 1862. In 1880, they moved to Seattle to a home on 3rd Avenue and Madison Street where John retired. Phoebe died in 1886 and John died in 1891.
ID Number:1956.1164.2
Date:Circa 1860-1880
Cast iron pan with separate cups, ca. 1860-1880
Also known as a muffin pan, a gem pan, or a roll pan, this type of pan allows for multiple smaller items to be baked simultaneously. This pan belonged to Alexander Murray Gow, who came to Seattle in 1866. Gow married Anna Katherine Nagel and they had a 160-acre claim in the area between what is now Renton and Kent.…
ID Number:1957.1300.5
Date:Circa 1860-1880
Navy and white checkered designed cotton house dress, ca. 1900
This house dress is in the smock style, open in the back with two buttons at the top. There is a low rounded neck, wide sleeve openings, and a pocket at the right hip.
ID Number:1958.1516.73C197
Date:Circa 1900
Stack of melted saucers from the Seattle Fire of 1889
The Great Fire of June 6, 1889 was a significant turning point in Seattle's history and changed both the physical and political landscapes of the city. The fire started in a paint and woodwork shop at Front and Madison and swept southward across 100 acres of Seattle's business district and waterfront. The inferno completely consumed the business district's wooden buildings,…
ID Number:1958.1550.1
Date:Circa 1880
"The Daisy" washboard made by Howard Manufacturing Company, ca. 1915
This washboard was made by the Howard Manufacturing Company, founded in 1901 in Kent, Washington. The company still exists today, making various types of ladders under the name Green Bull.
ID Number:1959.1625.4
Date:Circa 1915
China sauce dish, Carnation Company pattern, 1920-1930
In 1889, Amos Eldridge Stuart founded the Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company in Kent, Washington. He changed the name to Carnation Evaporated Milk Company in 1901 and established a cow breeding farm in Tolt, Washington. By 1926, the company had six Seattle-area dairies and six local evaporated milk plants, plus 24 evaporated milk plants elsewhere in the country. The town…
ID Number:1959.1625.7
Date:1920-1930