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Silver cup engraved with the name "Major Granville Owen Haller," ca. 1860
Granville Owen Haller (1819-1897) was a US Army military officer who became a wealthy and prominent Seattle businessman. In 1852, 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…
ID Number:1957.1333.1
Date:Circa 1860
Carved wood trim or molding from Fuhrman home, ca. 1908
David Denny, younger brother of Arthur Denny, and Henry Fuhrman, a real estate developer, platted the area that is today the Roanoke Park neighborhood in Seattle. Several grand homes were built in this area from 1908-1912.
ID Number:1959.1753
Date:Circa 1908
Ice cream scoop from Capitol Hill Drug store, ca. 1920-1950
Located on 15th Avenue, Capitol Hill Drug was open sometime in the 1910s and closed in the early 1980s. This item was donated to MOHAI by Alan K. Lomax, who owned the store in the 1960s. It is likely he was cleaning out historic and outdated items from the long-running business. The store also sold ice cream and had a…
ID Number:1961.2236.1
Date:Circa 1920-1950
Large framed colored photograph looking south at downtown Seattle from Queen Anne Hill, 1940s
This oversized and colorized photograph, dating to the early 1940s, was donated by four brothers who owned the Leavitt Brothers women's clothing store. According to the Seattle City Directory, two of the Leavitt brothers were running an investment and real estate business in 1939, then apparently switched to women's clothing when the other two brothers joined the family enterprise. It…
ID Number:1969.4594.9
Date:Circa 1940
Drawing, "A Bit of Old Seattle. Foot of Cherry Street," by Roi Partridge, 1916
Roi George Partridge (1888-1984) was born in Centralia, when Washington was still a territory. His family moved to Seattle in 1892, where his father eventually owned the local newspaper. In 1909, Partridge studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York, then traveled to Munich, Germany, to study etching. He also spent several years in Paris working as…
ID Number:1974.5846.9
Date:1916
Air Raid Warden's badge #100, Police Department, City of Seattle, ca. 1940
During WWII, there were fears that cities in the United States would be bombed like England was during the blitz. President Roosevelt formed the Office of Civilian Defense to organize communities of volunteers. Air Raid Wardens educated their neighbors about blackouts and air raid procedures, ran drills, and did patrols at night.
ID Number:1980.6898.2
Date:Circa 1940
Seattle Air Raid Warden badge, 1941-1945
During WWII, there were fears that cities in the United States would be bombed like England was during the blitz. President Roosevelt formed the Office of Civilian Defense to organize communities of volunteers. Air Raid Wardens educated their neighbors about blackouts and air raid procedures, ran drills, and did patrols at night.
ID Number:1980.6898.3
Date:Circa 1944
Oil painting, "Across from Broadway" by Doris Chase, 1951
Doris Totten Chase (1923-2008) was a leading Northwest artist for almost 50 years and a member of the Northwest School. A native of Seattle, she studied architecture at the University of Washington. She also studied oil painting with Russian émigré artist Jacob Elshin, with Mark Tobey, and with Greek artist Nickolas Damascus. Chase worked as a painter for fifteen years,…
ID Number:2000.54.1
Date:1951
Print of watercolor painting of Pioneer Square in Seattle by Jess Cauthorn, 1952
Jess Dan Cauthorn (1923-2005) was born in Seattle and was a student at the Burnley School of Professional Art, which he later purchased and ran until it became the Art Institute of Seattle in 1982. He influenced many northwest artists and was a member of the American Watercolor Society, Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters, and the Northwest Watercolor Society.…
ID Number:2002.23.1
Date:1952
Portrait of "Jimmie Lane" by Kathleen Houlahan, ca. 1910-1920
This portrait is of a young boy from the Beaux Arts Village, a tiny Eastside town that was founded with the vision of a utopian arts colony. The artist Kathleen Houlahan (1887–1964) was born in Winnipeg, Canada, and grew up in Pasadena, California. She moved to Seattle in 1901 to attend the University of Washington. She also studied art in…
ID Number:2006.23.2
Date:Circa 1910-1920