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British flag presented to pilot Major Frederick L. Martin on the first Round the World flight, 1924
On April 6, 1924, four Douglas World Cruisers, each manned by an Army Air Corps pilot and mechanic, took off from Seattle's Sand Point Field in an attempt to be the first to fly around the world. The four aircraft were named Seattle, Chicago, Boston, and New Orleans. Major Frederick L. Martin (1882-1956) was in the lead aircraft, the Seattle.…
ID Number:1958.1427
Date:1924
Leather card case for Arctic Club member Dr. Alfred Raymond, 1910
Complimentary gifts bearing business names were once a common form of advertisement. Albert Hansen, a local silversmith and jeweler, most likely made these card holders for the members of the Arctic Club, an exclusive men's social club mostly comprised of those who "struck it rich" during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897.
ID Number:1958.1516.37
Date:1910
Pin commemorating the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), ca. 1909
This small gold pin, a souvenir from the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, is an example of one of the AYP logos.
ID Number:1958.1519.1
Date:1909
Gold medal from the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), 1909
Medals like this one were given out as prizes to exhibitors at the Seattle Exposition. All the medals were originally bronze and then the gold and silver medals were plated. Typically the name of the winner was engraved on the reverse of the medal but this one is blank. The design shows a woman at the center in classical dress,…
ID Number:1959.1592
Date:1909
Spike from Imperial Russian Navy sidewheel gunboat, the POLITKOFSKY, ca. 1850s
Built by the Russians in Sitka, the POLITKOFSKY came under United States ownership in 1867 when Russian Alaska was sold to the US. The gunboat was then sold into civilian service as a tugboat, Polly, working the northwest coast of North America until 1896. It was then converted to a schooner barge and carried eager gold seekers to Alaska during…
ID Number:1959.1623.1
Date:Circa 1850
Spike from Imperial Russian Navy sidewheel gunboat, the POLITKOFSKY, ca. 1850s
Built by the Russians in Sitka, the POLITKOFSKY came under United States ownership in 1867 when Russian Alaska was sold to the US. The gunboat was then sold into civilian service as a tugboat, Polly, working the northwest coast of North America until 1896. It was then converted to a schooner barge and carried eager gold seekers to Alaska during…
ID Number:1959.1623.2
Date:Circa 1850
Miner's pan, ca. 1900
This miner's pan belonged to "Skagway Bill" Fonda who built the first log cabin in Skagway around 1900. He joined the rest of the hopeful miner's in trying to make it rich during the Alaskan gold rush.
ID Number:1959.1630.6
Date:Circa 1900
Drawing on animal hide by George Twok Aden Ahgupuk, ca. 1930-1950
George Twok Aden Ahgupuk (1911-2001) was an Inupiat native artist from Shishmaref, Alaska, whose work depicted village life, hunting of seals, walrus, whale, and polar bears, and Alaska wildlife and scenery, similar to what is featured in this piece. Twok developed his own technique for bleaching caribou, reindeer, and moose hides, and he shared this technique with no one. This…
ID Number:1959.1655.634
Date:Circa 1930-1950
AYP pins from the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition held in Seattle, 1909
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world's fair held in Seattle in 1909. It publicized the development of the Pacific Northwest and positioned Seattle as a gateway to Alaska and the Pacific Rim. These commemorative “AYP” pins cleverly hide the “Y” between the A and the P, with the “1909” on the tail of the Y. The AYPE fairgrounds became…
ID Number:1959.1671.1
Date:1909
Pin commemorating the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) held in Seattle, 1909
The 1909 Exposition celebrated the relationship between Seattle and Alaska in the wake of the Gold Rush of 1897. The top part of pin is shaped like a gold pan on top of a crossed shovel and pickaxe. Below is a medal with images of Chief Seattle, Secretary of State William Henry Seward, a man panning for gold, and a…
ID Number:1959.1676.1
Date:1909