66 results for: Lake Washington
Oil painting of an Indigenous camp on Lake Union by Emily Inez Denny, 1886
The daughter of one of Seattle’s founding families, Emily Inez Denny (1853 – 1918) was both a painter and writer. Greatly influenced by seeing the drawings of Sarah Willoughby as a student at the Washington Territorial University, she took on painting as a life-long pursuit. In her 1909 book, “Blazing the Way,” Denny writes of an imagined scene from 1851:…
ID Number:1959.1791.2
Date:1886
Oil painting of Lake Washington with Cascade Range in background by Emily Inez Denny, 1870-1918
The daughter of one of Seattle’s founding families, Emily Inez Denny (1853–1918) was both a painter and writer. Greatly influenced by seeing the drawings of Sarah Willoughby as a student at the Washington Territorial University, she took on painting as a life-long pursuit. A woman who thrived on the creation of art, she constantly traveled with a notebook so she…
ID Number:1959.1791.3
Date:1870-1918
Sword in case with extra scabbard, 1863
The inscription on the extra scabbard reads: "Presented to Maj. Granville O. Haller, 7th Inft. USA, Commandant of Gnl Headquarters by the Officers of the 93d N.Y. Vols. Headquarters Guard, 'Army of the Potomac', as a token of regard for his social qualities as a gentleman and his military ability as an officer, Camp near Falmouth, Va., Jan. 1, 1863."…
ID Number:1961.2476.29
Date:1863
Dress sword owned by Granville Owen Haller, 1860
Granville Owen Haller (1819-1897) was a US Army military officer who became a wealthy and prominent Seattle businessman. In1852, G.O. Haller was promoted to Major and was transferred from service in the Mexican-American War to the Washington Territory. During his service in the Civil War he was dismissed in 1863. In 1883, he returned to the Seattle area and began…
ID Number:1961.2476.30
Date:1860
Oil painting, "Engine Room," part of "Men Who Work the Ships" mural by Kenneth Callahan, 1936
Kenneth Callahan (1905-1986) was born in Spokane and lived in Seattle, becoming a nationally known artist, most celebrated for his murals. Self-taught as a painter and sculptor, he is best known as a leading figure in the Northwest School along with Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, and Guy Anderson. Commissioned in 1936 under the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP), Callahan painted…
ID Number:1963.3128.3
Date:1936
Rear Admiral's hat, ca. 1940
This hat was owned by Rear Admiral Ralph Wood, who was at one time Captain of the Sand Point Naval Air Base on Lake Washington and served in the US Navy during World War II.
ID Number:1963.3182.11M355
Date:Circa 1940
Laceleaf Japanese maple tree, ca. 1864
This tree was one of five maples imported from Japan for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, held on the grounds of the University of Washington in 1909. The Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm designed the grounds with a mix of plants native to the once forested location and ornamentals for the formal gardens. Julius J. Bonnell, the fair’s official florist, dedicated the…
ID Number:1964.3248
Date:Circa 1864
Two-piece silk dress designed by Christian Dior, 1952
This foulard silk dress was designed in Paris by couture designer Christian Dior. It belonged to Guendolen Carkeek Plestcheeff (1892-1994), daughter of early Seattle setters, Morgan and Emily Carkeek. Guendolen was sent to Europe for schooling at age 13 and travelled frequently between Seattle and Europe as an adult. Known as one of the most stylish women in Seattle, Guendolen…
ID Number:1966.3799.8C1182
Date:1952
Container for Powdered Pumice Stone from Bartell Drug Stores, Seattle, ca. 1900
Bartell Drugs, established in 1890, was one of the oldest and long-standing family-owned stores in Seattle until it was sold to Rite Aid in 2020. George H. Bartell Sr. (1868–1956) purchased the Lake Washington Pharmacy at 2711 South Jackson Street in Seattle's Central District in 1890, and that was the beginning of a long-lived and beloved Seattle business.
ID Number:1966.3957.6b
Date:Circa 1900
Bench from the MV Crosline ferry, ca. 1925-1950
The MV Crosline was a 65-car motor ferry, built in 1925 by Marine Construction Company in Seattle, for the Crosby Direct Line Ferry Company. It ran the Alki-Manchester Ferry route on Puget Sound until 1942, when it was purchased and transferred to Vancouver, British Columbia. After World War II, the ferry was purchased by the Washington State Highway Department fo…
ID Number:1969.4652
Date:Circa 1925-1950