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Cub Scout den mother's blue cotton blouse, 1950s
This blouse was worn by a den mother for a Cub Scout troop from St. Catherine's Parish in Seattle.
ID Number:1969.4563.8
Date:Circa 1950
Pocket watch belonging to John Reitz, ca. 1900-1910
John Reitz was the superintendent of Woodland Park in Seattle from 1914-1919.
ID Number:1969.4683.2c
Date:Circa 1900-1910
Glass beaded black velvet gown, 1930
This dress was owned by Mary Belle Myers (1874-1958) who was a prominent supporter of several charities including Children’s Hospital and Lighthouse for the Blind. Her family made its fortune in the salmon canning business. The larger size of this gown is rare since, typically, surviving examples of clothing from the past are smaller-sized, creating an inaccurate notion that most…
ID Number:1971.5218.3C1689
Date:1930
Three stained glass panels from Seattle's Arctic Club, ca. 1907
Seattle's Arctic Club was originally established in 1907 as a "social club" for successful businessmen with ties to the Gold Rush or Alaskan connections. This stained glass mural once graced the front of the Arctic Club and celebrates the intrepid sled dog, the fastest and safest way to carry cargo and trek the wintry regions of the north.
ID Number:1972.5300
Date:Circa 1900
Odd Fellows pieced appliqué album quilt, 1849
This quilt was made by Lizetta Hicksecker and her husband. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) is an international fraternal order founded in 1819 by Thomas Wildey in Baltimore, Maryland. It evolved from the Order of Odd Fellows founded in England during the 1700s. The IOOF's motto is "Friendship, Love and Truth," and promotes reciprocity and charity inspired by…
ID Number:1972.5491.4
Date:1849
Microphone and sound system, ca. 1939
This microphone and sound system was used at the Women's City Club of Seattle which was founded in 1922 by the city's first woman mayor Bertha Knight Landes. The Women's City Club, originally named the Women's Civic League, was organized to help educate women on local, national and world politics, and strive to improve the municipal conditions of Seattle.
ID Number:1973.5572.5
Date:Circa 1939
Women's City Club hand stamps, ca. 1950
The Women's City Club of Seattle was organized in 1922 by former Seattle Mayor Bertha K. Landes. The club was originally known as “The Women's Civic League,” but the name changed to the Women's City Club in December 1923. The purpose of the club was to educate women about local, state, national and world politics, and in cooperation with other…
ID Number:1973.5572.7
Date:Circa 1950
Boy Scout pin from the Treasury Department, 1917
This award was given to William Jones in 1917 when he was a Boy Scout in Troop #10 at Isaac I. Stevens School in Seattle. Jones was honored by the US Treasury War Service for selling war bonds for the Liberty Loan campaign during World War I with the motto, "Every Scout to Save a Soldier."
ID Number:1974.5867
Date:1917
Elks convention badge, 67th Annual BPOE Grand Reunion, July 6-9, 1931, made by Mayer Bros.
This badge, ca. 1931, was crafted by Joseph Mayer, an early Seattle jeweler and street clock maker.
ID Number:1974.5919.14
Date:1931
Black and gold cocktail dress, 1950s
This 1950s cocktail dress has three built-in petticoat layers to give it extra volume. It belonged to Seattleite Ann Dulien Diamond (1909-1984), who donated many high-fashion garments to MOHAI’s collection. She was born Ann Fabrikant in Russia (now Poland) in 1909 and came to the United States in 1911. She grew up in New York and moved to Seattle after…
ID Number:1975.6058.5C2137
Date:Circa 1950