183 results for: European American Settlement
Oil painting of cliffs and steamer by Harriet Foster Beecher, 1882
Born in Indiana, Harriet Foster Beecher (1853-1918) traveled to the West Coast to attend the San Francisco School of Design. She moved to Seattle in 1880 and married Captain Herbert Foote Beecher. In 1881, Beecher opened what is thought to be Seattle’s first art studio. She painted Indigenous life in oils and watercolors, portraits of Seattle pioneers, and landscapes. Beecher…
ID Number:1953.303.4
Date:1882
Watercolor painting of a house near tide pools, 1894
The artist of this watercolor, Mary Hadley Foster Fletcher (1834-1922), was the mother of artist Harriet Foster Beecher and lived with her daughter and family in Port Townsend. Beecher was a talented and prolific artist, and Mary may have been inspired by her daughter to paint as well. MOHAI has a sigificant collection of Harriet Beecher's works.
ID Number:1953.303.12
Date:1894
Oil portrait of Ezra Meeker by Harriet Foster Beecher, 1914
Ezra Manning Meeker (1830-1928) was born in Iowa and traveled the Oregon Trail eventually settling in what would become Puyallup, Washington, in 1862. He grew hops for brewing beer and he was known as the "Hop King of the World," as his agricultural business made him a wealthy man. Unfortunately, an infestation of hop aphids in 1891 destroyed his crops…
ID Number:1953.303.13
Date:1914
Oil portrait of Ezra Meeker by Harriet Foster Beecher, 1914
Portrait of Ezra Meeker (1830-1928) in his old age. Meeker had been an early white settler of the area who traveled from Iowa and farmed hops in Puyallup. He later advocated for the preservation of the Oregon Trail, which he and his family had used to travel west, and is credited with spearheading its preservation. The artist, Harriet Foster Beecher…
ID Number:1953.303.14
Date:1914
Portrait of Monsignor Francis X Prefontaine, ca. 1868
Father Francis X. Prefontaine (1838-1909) was born in Quebec and arrived in Seattle in 1867. He was the city's first resident priest and built Seattle's first Roman Catholic church, Our Lady of Good Help, located on Third Avenue and Washington Street. In 1877, he bought a soap factory and this became the site of the Sisters of Providence first hospital…
ID Number:1953.360
Date:Circa 1868
Glass butter dish, ca. 1850
This dish was brought across the plains in a covered wagon by the Boren and Denny families, early white settlers in Puget Sound.
ID Number:1953.368
Date:Circa 1850
Single-bladed pocket knife, ca. 1880
This pocket knife belonged to Arthur Denny, head of an early white settler family and a founder of Seattle.
ID Number:1953.651
Date:Circa 1880
Split cedar shingle and pieces of bark from the Denny House on Alki, 1851
In 1851, Arthur Denny, at the age of 29, led a contingent of his family west from Illinois to the Pacific Northwest, where he helped found the city of Seattle. This shingle, donated by a descendent of those early settlers, was a part of the original cabin built by the Dennys when they first arrived on what was later called…
ID Number:1953.651.1
Date:1851
Handmade pocket purse, ca.1847
This beaded purse belonged to Mary Ann Denny and was made around 1847. Born Mary Ann Boren, she was part of the first white family to settle in what was to become Seattle.
ID Number:1953.651.A.1
Date:1847
Razor owned by Arthur Denny, 1861
In 1851, Arthur Denny, at the age of 29, led a contingent of his family west from Illinois to the Pacific Northwest, where he helped found the city of Seattle.
ID Number:1953.651.B
Date:Circa 1861