412 results for: Retail and Department Stores
Green and pink John Eaton hat, ca. 1950s-1960s
This hat has a striking combination of green velvet with bright pink trim. It also includes small rhinestones on the pink decoration, a band of dark blue velvet, a green net veil, and a matching hatpin with a small green pom-pom. Cornish School of Arts graduate John Eaton (1914-1991) was a successful milliner, designer, and teacher whose individually-styled hats became…
ID Number:2019.41.1
Date:Circa 1950-1960
Charga-Plate credit card for The Bon Marché department store, ca. 1940
This was an early form of credit card for use at The Bon Marché department stores in Seattle in the 1940s.
ID Number:2019.45.1
Date:Circa 1940
Silver hat with rhinestones made by John Eaton, ca. 1960s
This sparkling silver hat was made by local milliner John Eaton and worn in Seattle by Stina Johannesen. Cornish School of Arts graduate John Eaton (1914-1991) was a successful milliner, designer, and teacher whose individually-styled hats became known all over the country. Eaton and partner James Neher opened their first store in 1950, and eventually opened “John Eaton Of Course!”…
ID Number:2019.51.1
Date:Circa 1960-1969
Manning's Coffee tin, 1 lb. ca. 1938
Brothers Edward McClure Manning (1872-1956) and William Wayland Manning (1874-1938) began selling freshly roasted coffee beans from a small stall in the Pike Place Market in 1908. Soon, they started offering customer cups of brewed coffee, and before long Manning's expanded its menu to include baked goods and full cafeteria service. By around 1950, the company had ten restaurants in…
ID Number:2019.54.1
Date:Circa 1938
Nuciano "Aurene" handbag in orange, 2019
Nuciano is a contemporary Seattle-based luxury handbag company, founded by creative director Joy Egbejimba. Nuciano’s signature design element is a cowrie shell—incorporated here as the clasp. Egbejimba was born in Nigeria, where the cowrie has a powerful history as an item of adornment and currency.
ID Number:2019.71.1
Date:2019
Georgio Armani trenchcoat, sweater, shirt, and trousers from Butch Blum
Retailer Butch Blum opened in 1974 and introduced Seattle shoppers to emerging, often unknown, European designers unavailable elsewhere in the city. Originally focused on menswear, this was the second store in the US to carry high-end Italian designer Giorgio Armani. This ensemble was donated to MOHAI in 2019 as part of the exhibit Seattle Style: Fashion/Function. The coat, shirt, and…
ID Number:2019.90.14.ONLINE
Date:1981-2018
Firearm holster from Warshal's Sporting Goods, 1950s
Adolph and William Warshal opened a pawn shop in downtown Seattle in 1922. In 1936 it moved to First and Madison and expanded into sporting goods, which became its primary business during the decades it remained at that location. Two branch stores were opened in the 1950s and 1960s, one in Ravenna and one near Northgate, but both eventually closed.…
ID Number:2019.101.2
Date:Circa 1950
Candy tin for Brown & Haley Almond Roca candies, ca. 1980
Brown & Haley, founded in Tacoma and still in operation as of 2019, began as a candy company before WWI but hit it big with the invention of Almond Roca in 1923. In 1927, they began packaging it in a pink tin, which extended the shelf life. Besides the taste, it was the candy's ability to travel well and keep,…
ID Number:2019.Candy.01
Date:Circa 1980
Heart-shaped box from Fran's Chocolates, 2018
Fran Bigelow opened her original shop, Fran’s Patisserie & Chocolate Specialties, in Seattle in 1982. Today, there are four Seattle-area boutiques plus mail order and wholesale lines of truffles, caramels, bars, and chocolate-covered nuts and fruit. President Barak Obama is among Fran’s Chocolates fans and he would gift Gray and Smoked Salt Caramels to White House visitors.
ID Number:2019.Candy.02
Date:2018
Rhodes Department Store shopping bag, Seattle, ca. 1960s
Rhodes brothers Albert, William, Henry and Charles established the Rhodes Brothers department store in Tacoma in 1903. Albert Rhodes left Rhodes Brothers in 1907 and moved to Seattle, where he opened another store. The department store chain survived for sixty years until the Pay 'n Save corporation purchased the chain in 1968 and renamed it Lamonts.
ID Number:2019.ShoppingBags.01
Date:Circa 1960