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Denim “crawler” overalls made by the Black Manufacturing Company, 1910
George G. Black founded the Black Manufacturing Company in Seattle in 1902. Their specialty was durable workwear and outdoor gear, with overalls being one of their leading products. This small version was designed just like durable overalls for an adult but built to withstand heavy crawling! These overalls were worn in Seattle by two sisters when they were between 1…
ID Number:1961.2366.10
Date:1910
Glass milk bottle, 1/2 pint, ca. 1920-1940
In 1889, Amos Eldridge Stuart founded the Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company in Kent, Washington. He changed the name to Carnation Evaporated Milk Company in 1901 and established a cow breeding farm in Tolt, Washington. By 1926, the company had six Seattle-area dairies and six local evaporated milk plants, plus 24 evaporated milk plants elsewhere in the country. The town…
ID Number:1961.2384.3
Date:Circa 1920-1940
Oil portrait of Charles F. Clise by Charles J. Fox, ca. 1957
The Clise family have strong roots in Seattle with JW Clise arriving in this area in 1899, one day after the Great Seattle Fire. Clise helped rebuild the city after that devastation and Clise Properties flourished and Charles Clise continued that legacy. The artist signature, CJ (Charles J.) Fox, was an alias for Leo Fox, a New York artist who,…
ID Number:1962.2613
Date:Circa 1957
Metal pail of "Dan's famous home rendered pure lard," ca. 1928
Polish immigrant Dan Zido came to Seattle in 1906. He had been an apprentice to a sausage maker while in Poland, and when he arrived in Seattle he worked at a meat packing plant. He opened Dan’s Market at the north end of the Pike Place market in 1924. Zido retired in the 1940s and died in 1953. The business…
ID Number:1962.2684.1
Date:Circa 1928
Ice pole or ice pick from the William Myers meat market in Georgetown, ca. 1900
William Myers was in the meat business since before 1900, but he opened his butcher shop in the Georgetown neighborhood on Duwamish Avenue, now Airport Way, around 1911 and was in operation until the 1960s.
ID Number:1962.2713.4
Date:Circa 1900
Cast iron receipt holder from the William Myers meat market in Georgetown, ca. 1911
William Myers was in the meat business since before 1900, but he opened his butcher shop in the Georgetown neighborhood on Duwamish Avenue, now Airport Way, around 1911 and was in operation until the 1960s.
ID Number:1962.2713.21
Date:Circa 1911
Carnation Milk bottle used by William Myers in his butcher shop on 2nd and Cherry, and in Georgetown, ca. 1900
William Myers was in the meat business since before 1900, but he opened his butcher shop in the Georgetown neighborhood on Duwamish Avenue, now Airport Way, around 1911 and was in operation until the 1960s. Amos Eldridge Stuart founded the Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company in Kent, Washington in 1889. He changed the name to Carnation Evaporated Milk Company in…
ID Number:1962.2713.44
Date:Circa 1900
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
Hamilton propeller from Boeing B-1, 1920-1924
The B-1 was the first aircraft designed and assembled entirely by the Boeing Airplane Company for commercial rather than military purposes. Beginning in 1920, the plane was used on the first regularly scheduled international airmail route between Seattle and Victoria. This propeller made by Hamilton Aero Manufacturing Company was used on the Boeing B-1, and there is a consideration that…
ID Number:1963.2886
Date:1920-1924
Printing block with image from Great Seattle Fire, 1889
This printing block, donated by Lowman & Hanford Co., contains an image of the tent city that was Seattle in the aftermath of the Great Seattle Fire in 1889. Lowman & Hanford was a printing company and retail stationery business operating in the Pioneer Square area of Seattle beginning around 1885.
ID Number:1963.2898.40
Date:Circa 1889