38 results for: Klondike-Alaska Gold Rush
Gold scales originally owned by Albert and Markus Mayer of the Mayer Bros., Klondike prospectors and jewelry store proprietors, 1897
The firm of Mayer Bros. was established in Seattle in 1897 under the name Joseph Mayer and Brothers. The company was founded by Joseph, Albert, and Markus Mayer, who emigrated from Germany. They were manufacturing jewelers, silversmiths, and jewelry wholesalers. In 1897, Albert and Markus left the company to join the Klondike gold rush where they established a retail jewelry…
ID Number:2011.7.1
Date:Circa 1897
Post Hotel sign, ca. 1930s
After the Great Fire of 1889 destroyed many of the wooden buildings in Seattle, the Post Hotel was constructed in brick in 1899-1900 on the corner of Post Avenue and Yesler Way. The hotel had small rooms and housed late gold rush seekers heading to the Klondike in Alaska, and accomodated "comfort ladies" as well.
ID Number:2015.66.1
Date:Circa 1930
Key fob from the Palace Hotel on 1st Avenue in Seattle, ca. 1950
The Palace Hotel was built in 1874 on what is now 1st Avenue (formerly Front Street) between Marian and Madison Streets. It survived the Great Seattle Fire in 1889 and was a stopping point for miners heading to the Alaskan Klondike Gold Rush in 1896-1899. The donor's parents leased and managed the hotel from 1949-1958. The donor recounts many stories…
ID Number:2017.30.1
Date:Circa 1950
Set of surveying tools used by James Casey Embree, ca. 1903-1939
James Casey Embree (1881-1940) was an early Seattle civil engineer. He was responsible for surveying various Seattle neighborhoods and, from 1906-1924, he worked on the Alaskan Engineering Commission that would provide railroads to parts of Alaska following the Gold Rush of 1897.
ID Number:2018.54.1
Date:Circa 1900
Protractor measuring tool used by James Casey Embree, ca. 1903-1939
James Casey Embree (1881-1940) was an early Seattle civil engineer. He was responsible for surveying various Seattle neighborhoods and, from 1906-1924, he worked on the Alaskan Engineering Commission that would provide railroads to parts of Alaska following the Gold Rush of 1897.
ID Number:2018.54.2
Date:1877
Surveying stencil tool used by James Casey Embree, ca. 1903-1939
James Casey Embree (1881-1940) was an early Seattle civil engineer. He was responsible for surveying various Seattle neighborhoods and, from 1906-1924, he worked on the Alaskan Engineering Commission that would provide railroads to parts of Alaska following the Gold Rush of 1897.
ID Number:2018.54.3
Date:1877
Souvenir glass shovel from the 1911 Seattle Golden Potlatch celebration
The Seattle Potlatch was an annual event which began in 1911 to celebrate Seattle's prosperity after the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1897. This souvenir was collected at the Dreamland Pavilion, once located at the corner of Seventh and Union Street, where many of the Potlatch activities took place. The name "Golden Potlatch" appropriates a Chinook Jargon word describing a Native ceremony…
ID Number:2018.102.1
Date:1911
Poster for Golden Potlatch celebration, 1911
The Seattle Potlatch was an annual event to celebrate Seattle's prosperity after the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition held in 1909. The name "Golden Potlatch" appropriates a Chinook Jargon word describing a Native ceremony celebration and gift giving. It also reflects the importance of the Klondike Gold Rush to Seattle's growth. Many organizers and participants in the Golden Potlatch dressed in stereotyped imitations…
ID Number:Lib.SHS.18157
Date:1911