183 results for: European American Settlement
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
Painted portrait of Phoebe Anne Stowell Webster by unknown artist, ca. 1860-1880
Phoebe Ann Stowell married John Webster in New York in the 1850s, but he soon travelled to the West Coast, with Phoebe and family joining him in Port Madison, Washington, in 1862. In 1880, they moved to Seattle to a home on 3rd Avenue and Madison Street where John retired. Phoebe died in 1886 and John died in 1891.
ID Number:1956.1164.2
Date:Circa 1860-1880
Brass cornet with rotary valves, ca. 1850
This cornet belonged to George Frederick Frye (1833-1912), a German immigrant who came to the US at 16 years of age and arrived in Seattle in 1853. He brought this instrument with him and played in the first Seattle band.
ID Number:1957.1234.4
Date:Circa 1850
Mess chest, ca. 1859
This mess chest was used in a border dispute between the United States and British armies in the "Pig War" of 1859. It held the gold paid to soldiers of the British Army when the northwest boundary line between the original Oregon Territory and Canada was being settled. The slogan was "Fifty-Four-Forty or Fight," which represented the latitude boundary line…
ID Number:1957.1238.2
Date:Circa 1859
Card table from the Bertrand Collins collection, 1840-1860
This rosewood Classical Revival style game table was shipped around the Horn for Mrs. Jackling, of the Grennan-Jackling home in Utsaladdy on Camano Island. Mrs. Jackling was the mother of Mrs. John Collins, wife of the prominent businessman and Seattle mayor in 1873.
ID Number:1957.1257.4
Date:1840-1860
Portrait of Mary Ann (Phelen) Smith, 1887
Mary Ann Phelen (1845-1880) was born in Ireland and came to the US, arriving in Seattle possibly via Wisconsin before she was twenty years of age. She married Dr. Henry A. Smith in 1862 and they had seven daughters and one son. Dr. Smith was a physician, politician, and served as chair of the school board. Smith Cove, the site…
ID Number:1957.1285.2
Date:1887
Bedstead, ca. 1865
This bedstead was brought to the new city of Tacoma in 1874 by George Neal Alexander when he traveled north with the railroad from Oregon. His house, one of the first built in Tacoma, was located where the Hotel Donnelly stands today. Later, Alexander came to Seattle and was the Street Commissioner from 1885-1888 and from 1894-1896.
ID Number:1957.1298.1
Date:1865-1885
Cast iron pan with separate cups, ca. 1860-1880
Also known as a muffin pan, a gem pan, or a roll pan, this type of pan allows for multiple smaller items to be baked simultaneously. This pan belonged to Alexander Murray Gow, who came to Seattle in 1866. Gow married Anna Katherine Nagel and they had a 160-acre claim in the area between what is now Renton and Kent.…
ID Number:1957.1300.5
Date:Circa 1860-1880
Powder horn, ca. 1790
This powder horn was used by settlers who traveled from the midwest to Oregon via covered wagon in 1852.
ID Number:1957.1380.5
Date:Circa 1790
Eyeglasses with metal rims and retractable bows, worn by Thomas B. Elder, a Seattle pioneer of 1883
These glasses were provided to Thomas Elder by early Seattle "Scientific Optician" H. Clay Eversole.
ID Number:1957.1381.4
Date:Circa 1883