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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
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
Wooden butter churn, ca. 1900
This churn was from the Tourtellotte family Janalu Farm once located on Avondale Road near Cottage Lake. The farm was in operation until the mid 20th century.
ID Number:1960.1913.2
Date:Circa 1900
Brass preserving kettle, 1855-1890
This brass kettle was donated by Carrie B. Raser whose family came to Seattle around 1890. This kettle was likely used around that time. It is a “spun” kettle which was popular in the late 19th-century. Prior to 1851, most kettles were hammered over a form and the pieces dovetailed together. H.W. Hayden patented a new technique for creating kettles…
ID Number:1960.1936.28
Date:1855-1890
Gaming table, 1893
This gaming table was made in 1893 by Otto Roseleaf, a Seattle building contractor at the turn of the 20th century. It consists of 8,500 pieces of various natural woods from all parts of the world. The top of the table is elaborately inlaid, made up of a central checker or chess board, surrounded by three concentric rectangular bands. The…
ID Number:1960.1947.1
Date:1893
Bedstead brought to Seattle by Captain Renton ca. 1850s
Captain William Renton and his family sailed from the East Coast, around Cape Horn, and up to San Francisco in 1850. The family then moved to the Puget Sound where he owned a sawmill until 1863, when he relocated to Blakely harbor on Bainbridge Island and established the Port Blakely Mill Company. He was a major investor in the coal…
ID Number:1960.2014.4
Date:Circa 1850
Pitcher with Sweet Briar Bride pattern, ca. 1903
Louisa Boren Denny was nicknamed the "Sweet Briar Bride" for the sweet briar plants she brought with her to the Pacific Northwest from Illinois, and for being the first non-native bride in Seattle. This chinaware was made in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Louisa Boren Denny's wedding, ca. 1853. The design was probably painted by Emily Inez Denny, her…
ID Number:1960.2050.1
Date:1903
Blue Chinese pattern plate belonging to Louisa Boren Denny, ca. 1853
Mrs. Louisa Boren Denny, the first non-native bride in Seattle, received this blue pattern plate from her mother in 1903.
ID Number:1960.2057
Date:Circa 1853
China doll found by Frank H. Davidson during the Seattle Fire of 1889
The Great Fire of June 6, 1889 was a significant turning point in Seattle's history and changed both the physical and political landscapes of the city. The fire started in a paint and woodwork shop at Front and Madison and swept southward across 100 acres of Seattle's business district and waterfront. The inferno completely consumed the business district's wooden buildings,…
ID Number:1960.2128
Date:Circa 1870
Hand woven coverlet once owned by Catherine Maynard, ca. 1830
Catherine Broshears brought this woolen coverlet west from Kentucky in 1852. Her grandmother had originally woven it for Catherine’s mother. Catherine’s mother and husband both died on the westward journey, and she married David Maynard in 1853, shortly before they moved to Seattle from Brush Prairie, near Olympia. Like many coverlets of its time, this one was woven in two…
ID Number:1961.2227.1
Date:Circa 1830