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Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) device, "Hewlett Packard (HP) Jornada 420 Palm-Size PC," 1999
This early PDA device or Pocket PC (Personal Computer), released in 1999, is part of a collection donated by a Microsoft employee who worked at the software company from 1999 to 2004. Microsoft would develop the software and prototype devices and then work with a manufacturing company, like Hewlett Packard, to build the PDA. The Jornada 420 used a Microsoft…
ID Number:2018.99.2
Date:1999
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) device, "Hewlett Packard (HP) Jornada 548 Pocket PC," 2000
This early PDA device or Pocket PC (Personal Computer), released in 2000, is part of a collection donated by a Microsoft employee who worked at the software company from 1999 to 2004. Microsoft would develop the software and prototype devices and then work with a manufacturing company, like Hewlett Packard, to build the PDA. The Jornada 548 was an version…
ID Number:2018.99.3
Date:2000
Windows Mobile Smartphone, ca. 2003
This early Smartphone, developed in 2003, is part of a collection donated by a Microsoft employee who worked at the software company from 1999 to 2004. Microsoft would develop the software and prototype devices and then work with a manufacturing company to build the phones. This was Microsoft's first Smartphone and was only used by employees.
ID Number:2018.99.8
Date:2003
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) device, "Compaq iPAQ 3135 Pocket PC," 1999
This early PDA device or Pocket PC (Personal Computer), released in 1999, is part of a collection donated by a Microsoft employee who worked at the software company from 1999 to 2004. Microsoft would develop the software and prototype devices and then work with a manufacturing company, like Compaq, to build the PDA. The iPAQ uses a Windows Mobile interface…
ID Number:2018.99.RefiPAQ
Date:1999
Seafoam green jeans from Seattle company Code Bleu Japan, 1980s
In the 1980s Seattle was a hub for jeans and casualwear companies. The trend began with Brittania and Shah Safari in the 1970s and quickly multiplied. These jeans are from Code Bleu Japan, a Seattle company started by Mel Matsui, Tom Herman and Carol Jones in 1984. All the founders had formerly worked for Brittania.
ID Number:2018.Jeans.2
Date:Circa 1980-1989
Highline College Nursing School uniform, 1964-1967
Marilyn Hale was part of Highline College's first class of nursing students, enrolling in 1964 and graduating in December of 1967. The uniform was made locally by the Arcadian Uniform Company.
ID Number:2019.14.4
Date:1964-1967
Woven cedar bark Chief Si'ahl (Chief Seattle) style hat made by DeAnn Jacobson, 2019
Native American weaver DeAnn Jacobson (Duwamish, Suquamish), a direct descendant of Chief Si'ahl (Chief Seattle), wove this hat from cedar bark. Coast Salish tribes have used locally sourced materials like cedar bark to make weatherproof clothing for millennia. Such garments range in style from functional to decorative.
ID Number:2019.15.1
Date:2019
Lowman & Hanford drafting set, 1910
The Lowman & Hanford Company, established around 1885, was a printing company and retail stationery business operating in Seattle's Pioneer Square. This drafting kit, sold by Lowman & Hanford and owned by Percy Kendall, was a cherished item for Percy's granddaughter Barbara Elizabeth "Liz" Kendall. Percy Kendall (1891-1940) received his engineering degree from the University of Washington and followed his…
ID Number:2019.36.1
Date:1910
Candy box from Sutliff's Candy Company, ca. 1970s
Sutliff's, a candy competitor of Frederick & Nelson's Frangos, was established in 1938 in Seattle and is most known for producing the delicious "Habits" chocolates that were sold by Nordstrom in the early 1980s. This particular box of "Mellow Mint Truffle" candies was sold in the 1970s.
ID Number:2019.37.1
Date:Circa 1970
Charga-Plate credit card for The Bon Marché department store, ca. 1940
This was an early form of credit card for use at The Bon Marché department stores in Seattle in the 1940s.
ID Number:2019.45.1
Date:Circa 1940