120 results for: Puget Sound
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
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
White china coffee mug that burned in the Seattle Fire of 1889
The Great Seattle Fire of 1889 burned many of the city's blocks to the ground and left countless damaged items in its wake including this charred coffee mug from the Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad Restaurant at Jackson and Commercial Streets. Thomas Marley, owner of the restaurant, saw his land value skyrocket after the fire convincing him not to rebuild.…
ID Number:1961.2371.10
Date:Circa 1880
Drawing of USS Decatur, "Seattle-1855," by Hewitt Jackson, ca. 1961
Hewitt Jackson (1914-2007) was a seaman, marine draftsman, and artist. He is best known for his maritime drawings of ships that sailed the Puget Sound and Pacific Northwest. The MOHAI collection contains seven of Hewitt's works. This particular drawing features the USS Decatur which was an armed vessel anchored in Elliott Bay during the "Battle of Seattle" that took place…
ID Number:1961.2441.1
Date:1961
Gold Shield tin for black pepper from Schwabacher Bros. and Company, ca. 1910
The Schwabacher Brothers, Louis (1837-1900), Abraham (1838-1909), and Sigmund (Sig) (1841-1917), were pioneering Bavarian-born Jewish merchants, important in the economic development of the Pacific Northwest. They owned several businesses bearing their family name, and opened a branch store in Seattle in 1869. Within a short time, the firm became Puget Sound's major wholesaler of canned goods, dry goods, and other…
ID Number:1962.2713.46
Date:Circa 1910
Painting, "'Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow' Metropolitan Theater (interior), Seattle, Wa." by Robert Fetterly, 1961
Metropolitan Theatre opened in 1911 on University Street in Seattle and featured both live theater and movies. This painting, which won first prize in 1961 in the Changing Scenes in Seattle Art Show, depicts the ceiling and balcony boxes at the time the theatre was being torn down. The artist, Robert Fetterly (1920-2009), worked for Boeing, The Bon Marché, and…
ID Number:1963.2967
Date:1961