122 results for: Washington Territory
Desk once belonging to Eliza Ferry Leary, 1870-1890
Eliza Ferry Leary was the daughter of the first Governor of Washington, Elisha P. Ferry. She married John Leary, a prominent and successful early builder of Seattle, as well as the city's first Mayor. Eliza was President of the Rainier Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and she was acquainted with many famous leaders of the West…
ID Number:1957.1313.1
Date:1870-1890
Silver cup engraved with the name "Major Granville Owen Haller," ca. 1860
Granville Owen Haller (1819-1897) was a US Army military officer who became a wealthy and prominent Seattle businessman. In 1852, G.O. Haller was promoted to Major and was transferred from service in the Mexican-American War to the Washington Territory. During his service in the Civil War he was dismissed in 1863. In 1883, he returned to the Seattle area and…
ID Number:1957.1333.1
Date:Circa 1860
Model of Fort Nisqually, ca. 1910-1930
The artifact donor made this model when he was 11 years old. It represents the Hudson's Bay Company fur trading and farming post located in what is now Dupont, Washington. Nisqually was chosen for its ideal ship anchorage location and, in 1832, the first structure, the Nisqually House, was built, with more buildings added thereafter.
ID Number:1958.1563
Date:Circa 1910-1930
Framed photograph of Seattle's Central High School graduating class, 1890
Seattle's first high school classes were held in 1876-1877 at the Territorial University. This photo depicts the graduating class of 1890, whose students were the first to attend classes on the third floor of the newly built Central School, after a fire had destroyed the previous school in 1888.
ID Number:1959.1767
Date:1890
Oil painting of an Indigenous camp on Lake Union by Emily Inez Denny, 1886
The daughter of one of Seattle’s founding families, Emily Inez Denny (1853 – 1918) was both a painter and writer. Greatly influenced by seeing the drawings of Sarah Willoughby as a student at the Washington Territorial University, she took on painting as a life-long pursuit. In her 1909 book, “Blazing the Way,” Denny writes of an imagined scene from 1851:…
ID Number:1959.1791.2
Date:1886
Bedstead brought to Seattle by Captain Renton ca. 1850s
Captain William Renton and his family sailed from the East Coast, around Cape Horn, and up to San Francisco in 1850. The family then moved to the Puget Sound where he owned a sawmill until 1863, when he relocated to Blakely harbor on Bainbridge Island and established the Port Blakely Mill Company. He was a major investor in the coal…
ID Number:1960.2014.4
Date:Circa 1850
Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern, and Biblical History, 1883
The original chronological chart was printed in 1871. This is a revised and enlarged version printed in 1883, and initially owned by Judge Thomas Burke, a prominent Seattle lawyer who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Washington Territory from 1888 to 1889. This chart was later used by the Seattle Center for Constructive Thinking which evolved…
ID Number:1960.2048
Date:1883
Frying pan, hand-forged by blacksmith in Seattle, 1884
This frying pan was hand-forged by a blacksmith in the Beacon Hill neighborhood in Seattle. Workers at the Beacon Hill Reservoir used the pan to cook lunch back in the 1880s. The reservoir was lidded with a park in 2009.
ID Number:1960.2102.4
Date:1884
Hand woven coverlet once owned by Catherine Maynard, ca. 1830
Catherine Broshears brought this woolen coverlet west from Kentucky in 1852. Her grandmother had originally woven it for Catherine’s mother. Catherine’s mother and husband both died on the westward journey, and she married David Maynard in 1853, shortly before they moved to Seattle from Brush Prairie, near Olympia. Like many coverlets of its time, this one was woven in two…
ID Number:1961.2227.1
Date:Circa 1830
Drawing of USS Decatur, "Seattle-1855," by Hewitt Jackson, ca. 1961
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 drawing features the USS Decatur which was an armed vessel anchored in Elliott Bay during the "Battle of Seattle" that took place…
ID Number:1961.2441.1
Date:1961