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Starbucks car mug with lid, ca. 1990
This Starbucks Coffee mug was made for drinking beverages in the car in the 1990s. The lid can be turned to seal the mug, and the rubber ring on base keeps it from sliding.
ID Number:2001.62.1
Date:Circa 1990
Microsoft Windows software, 1992-1995
Microsoft first unveiled Windows in 1983. Windows has been consistently one of the company's top selling products. In August 1995, retailers sold over 1 million copies of Windows 95 in its first four days of release. As processor speed and chip size increased, so did sales of each new improved Windows product, not to mention Microsoft's revenues.
ID Number:2001.64
Date:1992-1995
Wooden sign from Shelly's Leg Tavern, 1975
Famous for the bold sign announcing its identity, Seattle’s first disco opened in December 1973 at the foot of Main Street. Co-owner Shelly Bauman, a colorful figure, named the bar for the leg she lost to a cannon that misfired in a Pioneer Square parade. Money from the lawsuit helped her start the bar. "I wanted a place where everyone…
ID Number:2001.66.1
Date:1975
Watchmaker's workbench and tools, ca. 1930
This workbench belonged to Aaron Yormark. He served a seven-year apprenticeship in the watchmaking trade in Perm located in the Ural mountains of Russia. With the turmoil in Russia at the end of WWI, he left his parents and siblings for Siberia to avoid conscription in the army. He met and married Anna Yavorsky in Vladivostock and they fled to…
ID Number:2001.83.1
Date:Circa 1930
Amazon.com shipping box, ca. 2001
While this particular box does not have iconic significance, it does represent the backbone of business for Amazon.com, the online ordering company started by Jeff Bezos in 1994 in Seattle. Many consumers recieve these same boxes everyday on their doorstep.
ID Number:2001.95.2.2
Date:Circa 2001
Nippon Electric Company (NEC) PC-8201A digital computer, ca. 1983
The NEC brand PC-8201A portable computer was very popular in its day and included a text-editor, telecom software, and a BASIC language programmer. The original operating system (OS) software was written by a small Bellevue company called Microsoft.
ID Number:2002.4.1
Date:Circa 1983
Fire hydrant wrench, ca. 1980
This plastic folding wrench was used by Captain Raul Angulo of the Seattle Fire Department to open hydrants on the street. It was made by local company, Alden Equipment Co. in Seattle.
ID Number:2002.24.1
Date:Circa 1980
Cup and Saucer from Vivace Expresso, ca. 1998
Espresso Vivace was founded in Seattle 1988. Co-owners David C. Schomer and Geneva Sullivan first operated a coffee cart at 5th and Union downtown, with a second cart operating near Broadway Market on Capitol Hill. In 1992 they began roasting their own coffee in the Northern Italian style and around the same time opened their roastery and café, also on…
ID Number:2002.36.5
Date:Circa 1998
Box for Leukine Sargromostim, 2000
Scientists Steven Gillis and Christopher Henney, along with businessman Stephen Duzan, founded Immunex in July 1981. They envisioned the company's mission as developing, producing, and licensing diagnostic and therapeutic immunological products. Its successful drugs included LEUKINE (sargramostim) for patients undergoing bone marrow transplants, NOVANTRONE for multiple sclerosis, and ENBREL (etanercept), an anti-inflammatory used to treat arthritis. By 2001, Immunex was…
ID Number:2003.15.7
Date:2000
Box for Novantrone Mitoxantrone for Injection Concentrate, 2000
Scientists Steven Gillis and Christopher Henney, along with businessman Stephen Duzan, founded Immunex in July 1981. They envisioned the company's mission as developing, producing, and licensing diagnostic and therapeutic immunological products. Its successful drugs included LEUKINE (sargramostim) for patients undergoing bone marrow transplants, NOVANTRONE for multiple sclerosis, and ENBREL (etanercept), an anti-inflammatory used to treat arthritis. By 2001, Immunex was…
ID Number:2003.15.10
Date:2000