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Office desk from Northern Life Insurance Company in Seattle, ca. 1906
The Northern Life Insurance Company was founded in Seattle in 1906. The donor's father, D.D. Morgan, was one of the founders and this was his desk. It was purchased from the G.L. Holmes Furniture Company on Second Avenue in Seattle.
ID Number:1971.5183.1
Date:1900-1910
Pair of green leather portières from the home of Melvin Albert Weed, 1902
Melvin Albert (Bert) Weed (1882-1964) began in the pharmacy business in 1898 as a clerk at the Bartell Drug Company. After college he partnered with Albert G. Keene and worked as a pharmacist at Lake Washington Pharmacy which became Weed's Pharmacy in 1910, operating in the same Central District location until 1958. A portière is a hanging curtain placed over…
ID Number:1971.5220.2
Date:1902
Child's rocking chair, 1870-1890
Anna Berggren Clinton, born in Seattle in 1889, was given this chair when she was 11 years old. Her parents, Rudolph and Anna Berggren, came to Seattle before the Great Fire and settled in the Queen Anne neighborhood. Anna Clinton was told by her mother that Kikisoblu (Princess Angeline) often sat in the doorway of their Queen Anne home, drinking…
ID Number:1971.5249.1
Date:1870-1890
Electric table lamp that belonged to Grace McGrew Smith, Seattle teacher, ca. 1916
This lamp, an example of the Mission style, was purchased from David L. Russell who owned a Third Avenue art shop in the 1910s.
ID Number:1972.5416.2
Date:Circa 1916
Pincushion shaped like miniature footstool, Standard Furniture Co. of Seattle, ca. 1900s
This pincushion advertised Standard Furniture Co., an early Seattle retailer of imported furniture that was part of the turn-of-the-century economic boom resulting from the Klondike Gold Rush. The enterprise constructed and opened a permanent high-rise on Second Avenue in 1908.
ID Number:1972.5567.65
Date:Circa 1890-1920
Wooten patent secretary desk, owned by Territorial Governor Watson C. Squire, ca. 1876
Watson C. Squire (1838 - 1926) was the twelfth governor of Washington Territory from 1884 - 1887 and United States Senator from the state of Washington from 1889 - 1897. He used this desk all during his political life. The Wooten desk is highly valued for its complicated and intricate work. There are over a hundred features including carved elements,…
ID Number:1973.5537.1
Date:1876-1880
Mirror stand, 1902-1921
This mirror is from the Shafer Bros. Clothier and Men's Furnishings store in Seattle. The store was owned by brothers Julius and Issie who came to Seattle about 1890 and worked as auctioneers, pawnbrokers, retail clothiers, and commercial property owners.
ID Number:1973.5665
Date:1902-1921
Rosaline Clise's dollhouse, ca. 1895
This dollhouse belonged to Rosaline Hammer when she was a child. Although born in Boston, she lived most of her life in Seattle, marrying Charles Clise in 1913. The Clise family have strong roots in Seattle and they built a hunting lodge in the Redmond area in 1904. The newer furniture, circa 1920s-1950s, indicates that Rosaline's children and grandchildren may…
ID Number:1974.5900
Date:Circa 1895
Armchair, part of a set that was imported for the Goon Dip family, ca. 1890-1910
Imported for the Goon Dip family, this rosewood chair is hand-carved, with mother-of-pearl inlay. Typical of Chinese mortise and tenon joinery, there are no metal fasteners except the coins that hold the marble back splat in place. Because abstract landscapes or figures could be seen in cut marble, it was often used as a decorative element in Chinese furniture. In…
ID Number:1974.5914.1a
Date:1890-1910
Side table part of a set belonging to Chinese consul Goon Dip, consul for Oregon, Washington and Idaho, 1880-1930
Imported for the Goon Dip family, this rosewood table is hand-carved, with mother-of-pearl inlay. In the late 19th century, Goon Dip arranged the emigration of Chinese labor for Northwest canneries. He also served as Chinese consul, and owned the Milwaukee Hotel in Seattle's Chinatown. His daughter, Lillian Goon Dip, was born in 1900, grew up in the family hotel, then…
ID Number:1974.5914.2
Date:1880-1930