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Seattle World's Fair monorail uniform, 1962
During the 1962 World’s Fair, attendants at the Monorail wore these uniforms which were made by Seattle company Sportcaster. The cut of the top and skirt are in keeping with 1962 styles, but the triangle front has a futuristic flair. The fair was on the leading edge of a futuristic craze in popular culture and in fashion. The cartoon show…
ID Number:1963.3119.94C1055
Date:1962
Street flare or highway torch from the City of Seattle Water Dept., ca. 1950
Prior to the invention of reflective markers and strobe lights, the Seattle Water Department used round metal "smudge pot" highway torches that burned oil, such as this example from the 1950s.
ID Number:1963.3131.2
Date:Circa 1950
Trunk belonging to Roberta Frye, ca. 1890
Roberta Gertrude Frye was born in Seattle around 1870, the daughter of George Frederick Frye and Louisa Catherine Denny. She attended Goucher College in Baltimore for one year. She used this trunk when traveling from Seattle to Baltimore and back. Ms. Frye was an avid local historian and authored "Four Wagons West, the Story of Seattle," among other works.
ID Number:1964.3230.62
Date:Circa 1890
Dietz lantern for fire engine pumper American LaFrance, ca. 1907
The LaFrance Fire Engine Company was established in the 1830s in Elmira, New York, and manufactured fire engines, ladder trucks, ambulances, and rescue vehicles. The company opened a Canadian plant in Toronto, Ontario, and eventually moved headquarters to South Carolina, before ceasing operations in 2014. This lantern comes from a LaFrance engine pumper that was used by the Seattle Fire…
ID Number:1964.3281.1a
Date:Circa 1907
Full model of ferry boat Kalakala made by Mr. Lou Proctor, ca. 1930s
The builder's model was made by Lou Proctor in 1933 while temporarily laid off from the Boeing Company's model shop. This model was used in lieu of drawings; lines were lifted directly from the model for construction of the stylish streamlined superstructure. The Kalakala, in operation on Puget Sound from 1935-1967, was designed and built to be fast, to look…
ID Number:1965.3540.8
Date:Circa 1930-1940
Train schedule chalkboard for Northern Pacific Railway Company, ca. 1890-1930
This train schedule chalkboard was posted in the Northern Pacific Railway Company station in Elma.
ID Number:1965.3695.3
Date:Circa 1890-1930
Trunk lined with newspapers from the Washington Territory, 1875-1876
The interior of this trunk is covered with several 1875 and 1876 issues of the Daily Pacific Tribune, a newspaper produced in Olympia from 1869-1878. The Pacific Tribune originated from the Overland Press, founded in 1861, and it was the first daily newspaper for the Washington Territory.
ID Number:1966.4041.8
Date:Circa 1875
Model of Skyride, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
The Skyride, sponsored by Union Oil Company, was a Midway gondola ride that carried people 60 feet or more above ground from the Gayway to the International Mall on the fairgrounds, a distance of about 1400 feet. Each gondola held up to three passengers. The maker of this model added a comical touch with Peanuts characters. After the fair, the…
ID Number:1967.4246
Date:Circa 1962
Suitcase, ca. 1940
The luggage tag on this suitcase reads, "Mrs. H. B. Lear / Vista Alegra, Este 58 / Vibora, Havana, Cuba." The well-worn suitcase belonged to Lilla M. Mora y Ramirez. Lilla graduated from the University of Havana and married Harry Bonnell Lear, president of the University National Bank in Seattle. He became Board Chairman of Seattle's Pacific National Bank in…
ID Number:1968.4388.2
Date:Circa 1940
Bench from the MV Crosline ferry, ca. 1925-1950
The MV Crosline was a 65-car motor ferry, built in 1925 by Marine Construction Company in Seattle, for the Crosby Direct Line Ferry Company. It ran the Alki-Manchester Ferry route on Puget Sound until 1942, when it was purchased and transferred to Vancouver, British Columbia. After World War II, the ferry was purchased by the Washington State Highway Department fo…
ID Number:1969.4652
Date:Circa 1925-1950