75 results for: Animal
Model for the sculpture of an Alaskan wolf presented at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), 1909
This sculpture model is attributed to Bert Convisar, sculptor and father of the arts patron Anne Gerber. Four large sculptures of animals – the wolf, the water buffalo, the polar bear, and the cougar – were placed at the Geyser Basin, the hub of the AYPE, and were meant to represent the early white settlement days in the Pacific Northwest.
ID Number:1984.141.1
Date:1909
Pull toy, "Slinky Dog," 1960s
Seattleite Helen Herrick Malsed (1910-1998) designed this classic Slinky Dog toy. Malsed invented toys and games in her basement workshop and had her kids help as testers. This toy was one of more than 26 inventions that she created and sold to various toy companies around the country. "Slinky Dog" was manufactured by James Industries, Inc., Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.
ID Number:1991.27.1
Date:Circa 1960
Pair of gray lizard skin pumps, ca. 1950
Fay Suttles Olson, artist and window display dresser at The Bon Marché, wore these pumps in Seattle in the 1950s.
ID Number:1992.37.4
Date:Circa 1950
Tambourine used by Mark Dempsey, ca. 1975
Actor and performer Mark 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 of Washington's School of Drama. He lived in New York City from the early 1960s until his return to Seattle in 1982. This tambourine is marked with…
ID Number:1993.41.46
Date:Circa 1975
Bob Murray's Dog House Restaurant neon sign, ca. 1930
This sign that hung outside the Dog House Restaurant features a “wagging” dog tail considered to be the first moving neon sign in Seattle. The Dog House, according to an article by Stuart Eskenazi in the Seattle Times, Nov. 7, 2000, was a “24-hour kitschy diner at Seventh Avenue and Bell Street where crusty waitresses dispensed sass with black coffee…
ID Number:2000.21.22
Date:Circa 1930
T-shirt featuring the Dog House Restaurant, 1994
The Dog House, according to an article by Stuart Eskenazi in the Seattle Times, Nov. 7, 2000, was a “24-hour kitschy diner at Seventh Avenue and Bell Street where crusty waitresses dispensed sass with black coffee and the menu featured rib-eye steak (“tenderness not guaranteed”), peppered ham and eggs (“rye toast 10 cents extra”) and spaghetti smothered with chili.” The…
ID Number:2000.75.1
Date:1994
Print by Marvin Oliver, "New Generation," 1997
This serigraph by Native American sculptor and printmaker Marvin Oliver (d. 2019) depicts a new generation of salmon hatching from eggs. Born to Quinault and Isleta-Pueblo parents, and raised in Washington and San Francisco, Marvin Oliver (date of birth unknown) was an Associate Professor of American Indian Studies and Art History at the University of Washington and Curator of Contemporary…
ID Number:2001.70.1
Date:1997
Costume worn by children's TV personality Wunda Wunda, ca. 1970
From 1953-1972 Ruth Prins entertained Seattle children as TV storyteller Wunda Wunda. Dressed in a bright clown costume and assisted by animal friends Henry Happy Goose and Albert Wise Owl, she transported her viewers with tales of exciting adventures and distant places.
ID Number:2002.19.1
Date:Circa 1970
Henry the Goose hand puppet from the "Wunda Wunda" show, ca. 1950s
From 1953-1972, Ruth Prins entertained Seattle children as TV storyteller Wunda Wunda. Dressed in a bright clown costume and assisted by animal friends Henry Happy Goose and Albert Wise Owl, she transported us with tales of exciting adventures and distant places.
ID Number:2002.19.3
Date:Circa 1950
American flag art print by Don Paulson, 1970
Don Paulson (1933-2006) was an author, artist, and chronicler of Seattle drag culture. He was born in Seattle and grew up in Auburn and Enumclaw. Paulson was drafted into the U.S. Army at 19 and served for two years during the Koren War. In the early 1960s he went to New York and immersed himself in the Pop Art scene.…
ID Number:2002.23.2
Date:1970