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Framed placard for school children, ca. 1910
This placard listing the "Street Car Don'ts For School Children" was hung in a classroom or at a street car stop to deter kids from potentially harming themselves on or near the community transit vehicles. How well these rules were heeded, we will never know!
ID Number:1961.2455
Date:Circa 1910
Railroad combination punch and register, ca. 1874
Mr. John Booth Button, a conductor on the Front Street Cable Railway around 1900, used this punch to check in the cable car riders. It rings a bell each time is it used.
ID Number:1961.2491.1
Date:Circa 1874
Telegraph key, ca. 1912
This telegraph key was manufactured in Seattle by Frank W. Cameron and Sons, and used by Ollie F. Schulz, the Seattle Superintendent of Postal Telegraph from 1902-1935.
ID Number:1962.2539
Date:Circa 1912
WAVE work jeans, 1943-1946
These jeans belonged to Lieutenant Isabelle K. Moe who served with the Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) during World War II. The formal uniform for the WAVES was a tailored skirt suit, but WAVES who served as aviation machinists, metalsmiths, and parachute riggers needed something more practical for daily work. The pants have deep pockets, a side…
ID Number:1962.2865.8
Date:1943-1946
Kerosene lantern, Seattle Engineering Department, ca. 1900-1920
This was a work lantern for the Seattle Engineering Department in the early 1900s.
ID Number:1963.2890.2
Date:Circa 1900-1920
Bench seat from a Seattle streetcar, ca. 1900-1940
This wooden, two-person bench seat is the from the last electric streetcar on the Phinney line. The line was discontinued in 1941.
ID Number:1963.3086
Date:1900-1940
Street flare or highway torch from the City of Seattle Water Dept., ca. 1950
Prior to the invention of reflective markers and strobe lights, the Seattle Water Department used round metal "smudge pot" highway torches that burned oil, such as this example from the 1950s.
ID Number:1963.3131.2
Date:Circa 1950
Slat back side chair, 1860-1880
This chair, one of twenty-five, was used in the First Washington Territorial Legislature. Established in 1853, the Washington Territory consisted of what is today Washington State, and part of Idaho and Montana. President Franklin Pierce appointed Isaac I. Stevens as the first Washington Territorial governor, and Stevens called for elections to the legislative assembly. The Legislature consisted of a nine-member…
ID Number:1963.3191.1
Date:1860-1880
Wood and glass inkwell, 1854
Arthur Denny gave this inkwell to his brother David. It was used in the first territorial legislature of Washington in 1854.
ID Number:1964.3230.18
Date:1854
Inkwell used by Arthur A. Denny, ca. 1860
In 1851, Arthur Denny (1822-1899) led a contingent of his family west from Illinois to the Pacific Northwest, where he helped found the city of Seattle. He served as Seattle's first postmaster, was a delegate to the Washington Territorial Legislature, was one of King County's first commissioners, and he was instrumental in founding the University of Washington.
ID Number:1964.3230.19
Date:Circa 1860