122 results for: Washington Territory
Chalk slate, ca. 1850
This slate was used by Joseph Foster in his bachelor cabin in the 1850s. Foster, founder of the former town that bore his name (now Tukwila), was an early Washington Territory legislator and the first superintendent of schools in the area.
ID Number:1955.931.C
Date:Circa 1850
Sammamish or Klikitat basket, 1870
This basket, thought to have been made by either a member of the Sammamish or Klickitat communities, features woven geometric designs.
ID Number:1955.963.a
Date:1870
Smith Island Lighthouse 4th Order Fresnel Lens, 1884
A Fresnel lens is a convex lens surrounded with bands of glass ground so that they have all the same focal point. This Fresnel lens was made in 1884 by Barbier and Fenestre in Paris for the Smith Island Lighthouse built by the Coast Guard in 1858. Smith Island is located at the junction of Rosario and Juan de Fuca…
ID Number:1955.970.292
Date:1884
Watercolor drawing, "Alki, November 13, 1851," of the schooner Exact by Hewitt R. Jackson, ca. 1963
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 work depicts the schooner EXACT as it arrived at the future named "Alki" on Puget Sound carrying the Denny party and captained…
ID Number:1955.970.364
Date:Circa 1963
End table with inlay and mother-of-pearl accents, 1915-1930
This Colonial Revival end table came from the Foster family. Joseph Foster, who came to the Pacifc Northwest from Ohio and settled on the Duwamish River in 1852. Foster, founder of the former town that bore his name (now Tukwila), was an early Washington Territory legislator and the first superintendent of schools in the area.
ID Number:1956.1058.7
Date:1915-1930
Oil portrait of Henry G. Struve by Albert Jenks, 1883
On July 10, 1882, voters elected Judge Henry G. Struve (1836-1905) as mayor of the City of Seattle. Struve, a German immigrant, was a lawyer, journalist, and businessman who played a key role in Seattle’s political, social, and economic life in the 1880s and 1890s. He served two terms as mayor, overseeing more than $500,000 in public improvements, including the…
ID Number:1956.1061.g
Date:1883
Oil portrait of John Webster by unknown artist, ca. 1880
Oil portrait of John Webster (1817-1891). He came west around the Horn to the Pacific Coast in 1857, eventually moved to Seattle in 1880 after being a territorial representative, molder, blacksmith, and rancher. He retired and resided at 3rd Avenue and Madison Street. Webster also served as University of Washington Regent, organized and was the first president of the Seattle…
ID Number:1956.1164.1
Date:Circa 1880
Picnic basket with tea set, late 1800s
This tea set belonged to Kate Stevens Bates, daughter of the first Washington Territorial Governor, Isaac Stevens, and supporter of history in Washington's capital city of Olympia.
ID Number:1957.1219.1
Date:Circa 1880-1900
Small butter plates or saucers from "Indian camp" on Smith's Cove, ca. 1900
These small saucers were repurposed as paint plates and are thought to have been used in an Indigenous camp located on Smith's Cove in the early 1900s.
ID Number:1957.1221.3
Date:Circa 1900
Framed photograph of Elisha P. Ferry, ca.1875
Elisha P. Ferry was the territorial governor of Washington from 1872-1880.
ID Number:1957.1284.4
Date:Circa 1875