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Ramage flatbed press No. 913, handmade by Scottish immigrant Adam Ramage in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1800-1830
Handmade by Scottish immigrant Adam Ramage in Philadelphia in the early nineteenth century, this flatbed printing press saw a great deal of use in the western United States for probably forty years. While the early history of this machine is unclear, it is certainly one of the oldest presses on the Pacific coast. The first confirmed use of the press…
ID Number:1980.7094.438
Date:1800-1830
Reel-to-reel silent movie projector, 1916
This projector was used at Seattle's Colonial Theatre, built around 1914 and in operation into the 1960s.
ID Number:1984.38.5
Date:1916
RCA Television Set, 1948
Robert Priebe donated this television set to MOHAI. He helped found Seattle's first TV station, KRSC-TV, now KING-TV. The first broadcast from KRSC was Thanksgiving Day, 1948. This TV set was given to Priebe by the television manufacturer RCA in 1948.
ID Number:1984.87.1
Date:1948
RCA Television, 1949
This television set was assembled by Charles Rehkopf in 1949. He purchased the kit from Radio Products Sales in Seattle, Washington. He was the first to own a TV among his family and friends, and they often came over to watch programs.
ID Number:1989.9.1
Date:1949
Presidents Complimentary Pass to the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), issued to Mrs. Erastus Brainerd
This “President’s Pass” gave the holder free admission to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), a world's fair held in Seattle in 1909. The pass was granted to Mrs. Erastus Brainerd whose husband was a Seattle Post Intelligencer reporter in the early 1900s. The pass was signed by John Edward Chilberg (1867-1954) who was a prominent banker and merchant in Seattle and…
ID Number:1992.1.3
Date:1909
Hand puppet "Crazy Donkey" from the "Brakeman Bill Show," ca. 1960-1980
Brakeman Bill, featuring ex-DJ and sports announcer Bill McLain, was a popular weekday children's show on KTNT-TV (later KSTW-TV) in the Pacific Northwest market from 1955 to 1975. The television show was performed live and un-scripted; McLain dressed as a railroad brakeman, and drew pictures, ran elaborate model trains, showed cartoons, and interacted with puppet side-kick the Crazy Donkey, whose…
ID Number:1992.CrazyDonkey
Date:Circa 1960-1980
Tin "Marlboro Man" sign featuring Mark Dempsey, ca. 1980s
Seattle actor and performer Mark Dempsey was the model for this Marlboro cigarette advertising campaign in the 1980s. The “Marlboro Man” campaigns associated the cigarettes with “tough guy” figures like cowboys. Dempsey (1936-1994) was born in Los Angeles and came to Seattle in 1951 with his mother, performer Bessie Hall Dempsey. He attended Queen Anne High School and the University…
ID Number:1993.41.49
Date:Circa 1985
Painted oxford shoes worn by Phil Webber, ca. 1992
Phil Webber, a Seattle Post-Intelligencer press photographer from 1956-2006, was known for wearing colorful shoes on assignments. The designs on these shoes show Webber's houseboat before and after renovating it.
ID Number:2000.99.1
Date:Circa 1992
Pacemaker Speed Graphic camera, 1949
The Speed Graphic, with its flashgun and double-sided 4 x 5 filmholders represents the classic press photographer’s camera. Between 1942 and 1961, photographers with Speed Graphics won 16 of the first 20 Pulitzer prizes in photography. Phil Webber, photographer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for over fifty years, donated this camera to MOHAI.
ID Number:2000.99.2
Date:1949
T-shirt from newspaper guild strike, 2000
On November 21, 2000, staff at both of Seattle's major newspapers, The Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (P-I), went on strike. Though the papers were owned separately, both striking groups were represented by the Communication Workers of Americas (CWA) Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild Local 37082. This shirt belonged to Sherry Grindeland, co-chair of the strike steering committee for the…
ID Number:2001.15.1
Date:2000