125 results for: Puget Sound
Fourth (4th) order light from West Point Light Station, Discovery Park, 1881-1926
The West Point Light Station was the first manned light station on Puget Sound. It began operation in 1881 and, though it is automatic today, it is still in use in its Discovery Park location, which now includes a visitor center.
ID Number:1958.2153.1
Date:1881-1926
Coffee pot, 1905-1915
This bule enamel coffeepot was used at the Penrose Family Camp on Penrose Point in lower Puget Sound near Lakebay, Washington. The family established the camp in 1908, and it was used almost continuously until 1952 by members of the Penrose and Copeland families. The coffeepot was used daily on a wood burning cast iron stove.
ID Number:1959.1625.2
Date:1905-1915
Oil painting, "Port Townsend," by Harriet Foster Beecher, 1870-1915
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:1959.1762.2
Date:1870-1915
Painting, "Panoramic View of the Olympic Mountains," by Emily Inez Denny, 1894
The daughter of one of Seattle’s founding families, Emily Inez Denny (1853 – 1918) was both a painter and writer. Greatly influenced by seeing the drawings of Sarah Willoughby as a student at the Washington Territorial University, she took on painting as a life-long pursuit. This painting is a grandly romantic view of native people in a pristine landscape. Five…
ID Number:1959.1762.3
Date:1894
Oil painting of Lake Washington with Cascade Range in background by Emily Inez Denny, 1870-1918
The daughter of one of Seattle’s founding families, Emily Inez Denny (1853–1918) was both a painter and writer. Greatly influenced by seeing the drawings of Sarah Willoughby as a student at the Washington Territorial University, she took on painting as a life-long pursuit. A woman who thrived on the creation of art, she constantly traveled with a notebook so she…
ID Number:1959.1791.3
Date:1870-1918
Program on silk ribbon for the arrival of the Miike Maru steamship in Puget Sound, 1896
On August 31, 1896, the Miike Maru docked in Elliott Bay, beginning a regular run between Seattle and Japan. The steamship carried a cargo of silk and tea, and was owned by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japanese Steamship Company).
ID Number:1960.1818.15
Date:1896
Oil portrait of Henry Yesler by unknown artist, ca. 1850-1890
On July 8, 1885, voters elected Henry Yesler (1810-1892) as mayor of the City of Seattle. Yesler had served a previous one-year term beginning in 1874. His total education consisted of a few years in a log-cabin school, but when he arrived in Seattle in 1852, he turned the place into a real town instead of a collection of a…
ID Number:1960.1924
Date:Circa 1850-1890
Bedstead brought to Seattle by Captain Renton ca. 1850s
Captain William Renton and his family sailed from the East Coast, around Cape Horn, and up to San Francisco in 1850. The family then moved to the Puget Sound where he owned a sawmill until 1863, when he relocated to Blakely harbor on Bainbridge Island and established the Port Blakely Mill Company. He was a major investor in the coal…
ID Number:1960.2014.4
Date:Circa 1850
Miniature portrait of Mary Bess Lewis by Gertrude Willison, 1907
This miniature portrait was painted on ivory. The artist, Gertrude Willison (1873-1967), was born in Indiana but her family moved to Washington and her father was one of the framers of the state's constitution. Her first art instruction was under Harriett Foster Beecher followed by further study at the Mark Hopkins Institute. For three years she had a studio in…
ID Number:1960.2055.2
Date:1907
Miniature portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cookingham's son by Gertrude Willison, ca. 1907
This miniature portrait was painted on ivory. The artist, Gertrude Willison (1873-1967), was born in Indiana but her family moved to Washington and her father was one of the framers of the state's constitution. Her first art instruction was under Harriett Foster Beecher followed by further study at the Mark Hopkins Institute. For three years she had a studio in…
ID Number:1960.2055.3
Date:Circa 1907